It stars Gretchen Mol as a psychologist tasked with maintaining control of a dangerous psychic brought on board to communicate with the aliens and also features Jodie Turner-Smith (“The Last Ship”) and Eoin Macken (“The Night Shift”). The new adaptation greatly expands upon the original story, turning a 30,000-word novella into an episodic series. Set in 2098, 'Nightflyers' follows the crew of a huge, advanced spaceship flying through the solar system in an attempt to contact alien life. At that point I got in touch with the people at Universal and Syfy and said: ‘I hear you’re developing this for a TV series. I’d like to hear what you’re doing!’'ĭespite being the last to know about TV's 'Nightflyers,' Martin is pleased with the final product. It actually surprised me, because no one had purchased any rights or anything like that, but I dug out my contract and said, ‘Oh yeah!'. 'Like, two years ago I heard they were developing it as a television series. It was kind of a surprise to me,' Martin says, noting that he forgot he sold the TV rights along with the film rights back in the '80s. 'I never did think it would be good for television, actually. Martin remembers 'great writer' and influence Stan Lee More: 'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin was more keen to talk about 'Nightflyers,' an adaptation of his 1980 sci-fi/horror novella about a trip into deep space gone horribly awry that also was adapted into a 1987 film. So I’ve learned to say nothing about it.' '(I'm) pushing to get that one done, and there’s another one beyond that,' the author says. 'I’ve given up predicting when they’ll be finished, because every time I do, then it’s not finished by then and everyone gets mad at me.

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