BSG Producer to Adapt Children of Men to TV

Alfonso Cuaron had his shot at P.D. James’ sci-fi novel “Children of Men”, and now Battlestar Galactica producer David Eick (fresh from the disaster that was the Bionic Woman) will take his turn: by adapting the novel into a TV series. Eick tells Sci Fi Wire that he is currently writing the pilot episode for the proposed series, and that the series will not be anything like the movie — i.e. no wars or race-against-time. In fact, it sounds like a whole ‘nother animal than “Children of Men” the movie, but then again, I have not read the novel, so I wouldn’t know whose vision is more faithful to James’. Details below.

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“It’s really taking root more in the origins of the novels in that it will focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the society’s utter focus,” Eick (Battlestar Galactica) said in an interview at SCI FI Channel’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on March 18. “Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something [and] it becomes the headline of every news show, it’s about how, when you don’t have a responsibility to the next generation and you’re free to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line?”

Eick added that Children of Men will question how society defines responsibility, freedom and a sense of values when it doesn’t necessarily believe humans will survive as a species. “So it’s a very compelling, I think, human question that science fiction has always explored extremely provocatively,” he said. “It’s not really a war show like the movie was. It’s more an exploration of that issue.”

Eick is currently finishing up the fourth and final year of Battlestar Galactica, and then will be working with BSG frontman Ron Moore on the prequel series, Caprica.