Wolfgang Peterson Developing GHOST BRIGADES for SyFy

The SyFy Channel has announced that director Wolfgang Peterson (Das Boot, The Neverending Story, Troy, Air Force One) and Scott Stuber (Safe House, Ted) are set to develop a series based on the John Scalzi book The Ghost Brigades, which is part of the Hugo Award nominated Old Man's War universe book series.

The story follows John Perry, "who at 75, enlists into the Colonial Defense Force to fight a centuries-long war for man's expansion into the cosmos. Technology allows experiences and consciousness to be transplanted into younger bodies that are outfitted to endure the harsher rigors of war in space. However, soon after John arrives, he finds himself involved with a mysterious woman, and at the same time, at the center of an unraveling conspiracy involving an elite fighting force known as The Ghost Brigades."

The pilot episode will be written by Jake Thornton and Ben Lustig, who are both currently working on Winter's Knight for Columbia Pictures. Peterson has made some amazing movies in his career, he's a great filmmaker, and the fact that he's developing this project is a good sign that this is going to be a solid series.