SyFy Making HYPERION Event Series With Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips

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Bradley Cooper has been wanting to produce for a while now, and he and his Hangover director Todd Phillips have formed a production company with some pretty cool projects coming up. But I don't think any of them will have the impact on the geek sci-fi community that this will: THR says the duo is teaming with Graham King (Argo) to produce an event series adaptation of Dan Simmons' Hyperion novels for the Syfy Channel.

I haven't read Hyperion myself (I'm still trying to catch up with A Song of Ice and Fire), but from seeing the reaction to this news, it sounds like it's a masterpiece of the genre and people are very excited that it's getting a limited series treatment instead of trying to fit the entire story into one or two films. Here's the description of the upcoming series:

Set on the eve of Armageddon with the entire galaxy at war, Hyperion is the story of seven pilgrims who set forth on a voyage to seek the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope and a terrible secret — while one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.

Boardwalk Empire's Itamar Moses is co-producing and writing the screenplay. As THR notes, Syfy has been working hard to get science fiction back in the popular consciousness by producing shows like 12 Monkeys, Childhood's End, Brave New World, Krypton, Incorporated, The Magicians, Dark Matter, Hunters, The Expanse, Z Nation, and more over the past few years. I think fans are going to be excited to see what they can do with Hyperion, one of the most beloved books of the genre.