News > Children of Men Sci-Fi Network Pilot in the Works
March 27, 2008
Written by David Morgan
David Eick (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman) is currently working on a script for a pilot based on the novel The Children of Men, by P.D. James. The book was made into a generally well-received film (it dropped The to become Children of Men) by Alfonso Cuaron in 2006, but Eick says that the series won't bear much resemblance to the film's vision of the future. He told Sci-Fi Wire:
It's really taking root more in the origins of the novels in that it will focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the society's utter focus. Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something [and] it becomes the headline of every news show, it's about how, when you don't have a responsibility to the next generation and you're free to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line?
Eick said that the series "will question how society defines responsibility, freedom and a sense of values when it doesn't necessarily believe humans will survive as a species."
So it's a very compelling, I think, human question that science fiction has always explored extremely provocatively. It's not really a war show like the movie was. It's more an exploration of that issue.
This is still a long way from happening, but exciting news nonetheless.
