The book series by George RR Martin’s “Wild Card” will turn into a television series – BBC

The company Universal Cable Productions (owned by NBCUniversal) began work on the television series on the cycle of novels “Wild Card”. About this in his blog on Livejournal.com told writer George RR Martin, editor of the cycle. The producer and the author of the script of the series will be Melinda M. Snodgrass, a longtime assistant to Martin, who worked with him on “wild cards” from the first issue; She has also script and editing of individual episodes of TV series “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “The Outer Limits»

Date of the premiere of the series on “Wild card” is not yet known. .

Now there is a range of characters, which will be the main characters of the series, as well as the stories that will be told it. Martin himself in the record expressed hope that the first season will be released in the next year or two, but once written, is not sure in this

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«Wild card” – a series of mosaic novels invented by George RR The 1980s in Martin. The first volume of the series was released in 1987. The overall storyline of “wild card” has become a test excavation alien virus, which resulted in 90% of mankind died, and the remaining people have turned or “aces” (they got super powers, but retained their previous appearance) or “jokers” (sverhlyudi- mutants). Tried to prevent the test virus “wild cards” alien Tachyon was left in the world and became one of the protagonists of the epic.

Altogether 22 volumes. New book – it’s called “the High Stakes” ( “big bets”) – Martin is going to present on August 23 this year,

With regard to the possible books for the movies, the writer pointed out the first ( “Wild Card. “) and the 18th (published in 2008« Inside Straight ») volume. In addition, he wrote that a good “entry point” into the story is the 21 th volume – published in 2011 «Fort Freak»

Based on the book series of the same name a series of comic books and role playing were created.. In 2011, when the series channel the HBO “Game of Thrones” has popularized the fantasy series Martin “Song of Ice and Fire”, the company Syfy Films (which is owned channel Syfy Channel and Studio Universal) has bought the film rights, and the story (at the same time, by the way, covers reissue of “wild cards” came the slogan “from the author of” Game of thrones “). It then went on a feature film script he co-produced Martin and Snodgrass, after the success of that film company promised to think about the television series. no one promised a big budget, and as benchmarks were chosen “District №9″ Neil Blomkamp and “Source Code” Duncan Jones – both paintings were worth about $ 30 million, and have earned at the box office a few times more ($ 210 million in “Area” and almost $ 150 million in “Source code»).

But in the end the film project on “Wild card” has not been implemented, and the reason for his cancellation of one not call

The work on the series, Martin will not participate -. by virtue of agreements with HBO and because of the need to work on the sixth part of the “Song of ice and fire” (exit “Winds of winter” planned for April this year, but was postponed).

but keep an eye on the work Snodgrass writer still promised.

In Russia series today publishes the publishing house “Eksmo”. It has been translated and published only nine volumes of the series, which are published in chronological order of the original books; ninth volume – “Dzhokertaunskaya combination” (translated by Natalia Boldyreva) – was released in 2015. While plans to release the next volume is not, but, as noted in the “Eksmo”, in connection with the possible adaptation of the translation of “wild cards” can be continued.