THOR: THE DARK WORLD Director Alan Taylor Will Helm The Pilot For The RINGWORLD Series Adaptation
Writer and producer Akiva Goldsman teamed up with MGM last year to develop an adaptation of Larry Niven’s sci-fi story Ringworld. The project for the series is moving forward with director Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones, Thor: The Dark World) set to helm the pilot episode.
Ringworld, which was published in 1970, tells the story of Louis Gridley Wu, “who is celebrating turning 200 in a technologically advanced Earth in the distant future but finds himself perpetually bored and decides to accept an offer to join a woman and two aliens on a journey to explore Ringworld, the remote artificial ring beyond ‘Known Space.’”
In an interview with Collider, Goldsman revealed he’s actively working on writing the pilot for the series adaptation and that he’s had recent conversations with Amazon and MGM executives about the project, saying:
“Alan Taylor is attached to direct, and hopefully that will turn into an actual set of moving pictures, but God knows.
“I don’t know what Amazon is looking for, but they seem to like these larger objects that have scope and scale, if you [go] all the way back to that initial play with Man in the High Castle. I think that these big, comprehensive universes, there are very few of them still available, and I certainly think Known Space is one of them, for those of us who were Larry Niven fans in our high school days. Niven’s world, his universe, dare I say, is incredibly complex and nuanced, and Ringworld has always been this entry point. Better minds than mine have tried to crack it, but hopefully we’ll do it this time.”
Taylor has a lot of experience with playing in big sci-fi and fantasy worlds with big budgets in both TV and film. He’s also worked on The Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome, Terminator: Genisys, and his most recent project is The Soprano’s prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark. Ringworld seems like it’ll be a great project for him.
Source: Collider
