"Paramount Pictures" film studio is going to take Ray Bradbury's sci-fi short story named "The Martian Chronicles", and they are trying to adapting it into a feature film
Producer John Davis optioned the rights to the stories back in summer of last year, and he's still attached to it.
Davis has worked on over the years, films such as "Alien Vs. Predator", "I, Robot", "Mamaduke", "Norbit", "Day Day Camp", "First Daughter" and other films. Hopefully he puts together a talented team of people to make this feature film adaptation to big screen. Back in the 80's the book was turned into a TV miniseries that starred Rock Hudson and Bernadette Peters.
Spielberg also tried to get a film adaptation made over at "Universal Pictures" back in 1997, but he can't finished it work. Like all literary classics Bradbury is very hard to film screening.
Let's see little more detailed description of the book:
The "Martian Chronicles" is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of big red planet, Mars, by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists - humans. The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940-s in science fiction magazines. We hope that "Paramont's" experience will be successful!