From Variety: Spike Gives Straight-to-Series Order to ‘Red Mars’
“Sense8” co-creator J. Michael Straczynski will serve as writer, exec producer and showrunner on “Red Mars.” He will exec produce with “Game of Thrones” co-exec producer Vince Gerardis, who first brought the project to Spike, plus David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross of Skydance Television, which is the studio on the series.
Based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy of novels…
…“Red Mars” is set to go into production next summer for a January 2017 debut.
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