Universal has just harbinger a ticket of novel musical genre TV shows , include three novel adaptation of fantasy and scifi volume . But hidden among those are the first details about Dan Harmon and Evan Katz ’s next tv set serial : Sirens of Titan , an interplanetary epic based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel .
siren of Titan keep an eye on the richest valet de chambre in 22nd - Century America , Malachi Constant , who gathers his wealth through his “ over-the-top fortune ” he consider is a providential great power . But Constant ’s fortune run out when he ’s flung across the galaxy in a journeying that see to it him nullify a venomous state of war on Mars , fly to Mercury , be bring in back to Earth in disgrace , and finally travel to Titan to touch the individual behind his sudden fall — a man named Winston Niles Rumfoord .
On top of that , Universal also revealed plans to conform three book series , two of which will publicise on Syfy : Maggie Stiefvater ’s urban fantasy saga The Raven Cycle — about a young girl and a group of individual school boys on a quest for a magic power — showrun by Andrew Miller ( The Secret Circle ) and Catherine Hardwicke ( Twilight ) , and Hugh Howey ’s Sand , a post - apocalyptic drama surrounding a family of “ sand divers ” who scour the ravage remnants of an ecologically ravage Earth for worthful target bring forth by Book of Eli and former Rogue One author Garry Whitta and directed by World War Z ’s Marc Forster .
The third serial , which presently does not have an attached internet is an adjustment of Roger Zelazny ’s classic novel Lord of Light , save by X - Men : First Class and Thor co - writer Ashley Miller , which succeed a society of humans where a select few can be granted the similitude and powers of god , and one former god that develop up to challenge the condition quo .
It ’s a ridiculously packed slate — and one that does n’t even include thing like Universal’sprevious flock with Dark Horseto bring comics like Umbrella Academy to the pocket-sized screen , or last year ’s announcement of anAlfred Hitchcock anthology series . Either way , we can expect a ton of intriguing new musical genre show to hit our telly screens in the comparatively near future .
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