Ringworld Archives

The question of just how inspired Bungie was by Larry Niven's Ringworld series has been quietly boiling in the background and bubbles up every time a new Halo comes around Of course, burden for this comes down to Bungie as they were the original team to put the Halo IP together Bungie themselves have commented on the[...]

Banks Consider Phlebas TV series adaptation, there were some other big properties mentioned. About halfway down in the Deadline writeup of the Banks news, there is this drop of information: "As part of the effort, Amazon made a mega deal for a Lord Of the Rings TV series and is developing a slew of high-profile titles, including The Dark Tower, Wheel of[...]

Amazon's recent deals include series/projects based on Lord Of the Rings, The Dark Tower, Wheel of Time, Ringworld, Lazarus and Snow Crash. Deadline Hollywood Credit: Macmillan Amazon Studios continues its push into epic, big scope series programming, securing global rights to bring Iain M Banks' sci-fi adventure novel Consider Phlebas to series television The first in the[...]

Further emphasizing a recent shift towards a larger investment in series development, Amazon Studios announced development of three series adaptations of popular sci-fi works: Lazarus, based on the comic book by Greg Rucka (Marvel's Jessica Jones) and Michael Lark (Gotham Central); Snow Crash, based on Neal Stephenson's cult novel; and Ringworld, based on Larry Niven's '70s sci-fi[...]