David Hayter has been hired to adapt the popular book series Dragonriders of Pern into a feature film.
Here’s what makes McCaffrey’s dragons different from anything else you’ve ever seen or read on the subject: It’s not fantasy. It’s not even set on Earth. Her Dragonrider books are science fiction, set on a distant alien planet colonized by humans so long ago that they’ve forgotten they’re colonists.
The focus will be on Dragonflight novel for the time being- but there’s a whole series of books that started back in 1968, so there’s lot of material (22 novels, not counting other media) to choose from. Hayter, of course had contributed to the X-Men 2 and adapted Watchmen, so there’s a bit of promise there. There is no director as of yet; but Don Murphy (Transformers) is producing.
So, how about it, folks? Would you like to see the alien world of Pern up on the screens?
