Syfylis is involved?

It'll be low budget, poorly promoted, put on a bad night, have its season split in half with a minimum 6 month break between halves, unceremoniously cancelled, and then they'll throw up their hands and wonder how this could have happened.

Book it, done.

NeedlesslyCanadian: It'll be low budget, poorly promoted, put on a bad night, have its season split in half with a minimum 6 month break between halves

It's worked for Warehouse 13.

NeedlesslyCanadian: Syfylis is involved?

It'll be low budget, poorly promoted, put on a bad night, have its season split in half with a minimum 6 month break between halves, unceremoniously cancelled, and then they'll throw up their hands and wonder how this could have happened.

Book it, done.

It's as though you read my mind.

You want a good one? Let HBO or Showtime do it...

Did you guys even read the first sentence of the article?

Syfy's newly formed joint venture with Universal Pictures, Syfy Films-which, thankfully in this case, is not to be confused with actual Syfy films-has just acquired George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards as its first project.

It doesn't sound like they are making some crappy "TV movie" ...

/relax, nerds

And you couldn't afford MST3K?

NeedlesslyCanadian: Syfylis is involved?

It'll be low budget, poorly promoted, put on a bad night, have its season split in half with a minimum 6 month break between halves, unceremoniously cancelled, and then they'll throw up their hands and wonder how this could have happened.

Book it, done.


Couldn't have said it better myself.

Apos: NeedlesslyCanadian: Syfylis is involved?

It'll be low budget, poorly promoted, put on a bad night, have its season split in half with a minimum 6 month break between halves, unceremoniously cancelled, and then they'll throw up their hands and wonder how this could have happened.

Book it, done.


Couldn't have said it better myself.

I'd have added, "with visual FX by an intern with a Macbook and a consumer priced copy of Aftereffects". Maybe Maya, if they kicked in the bucks.

HawgWild: Did you guys even read the first sentence of the article?

Syfy's newly formed joint venture with Universal Pictures, Syfy Films-which, thankfully in this case, is not to be confused with actual Syfy films-has just acquired George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards as its first project.

It doesn't sound like they are making some crappy "TV movie" ...

/relax, nerds

Yeah, their mini-series and things, while not all great, have at least been well done. Its not The Asylum making it.

The English Major: NeedlesslyCanadian: It'll be low budget, poorly promoted, put on a bad night, have its season split in half with a minimum 6 month break between halves

It's worked for Warehouse 13.

to say nothing of:

BalugaJoe: He didn't write those books. He was just the editor.

Are they all collections? I've only read the first book as it was available for download online. Never seen any of the other books anywhere so haven't been able to continue it. But in the first book GRRM only wrote The Sleeper and Turtle stories I think (which were the only good ones imo)

I already know how this series is going to end.

When the Aces and the Jokers finally come to terms with how they are hated by the rest of humanity they are going to take all of their technology and fly it into the sun while allowing their mortal enemies to fly off with all of their technology and then not write any of it down to warn future generations of Aces and Jokers so that the cycle starts again.

How the hell did they straighten out the rights for that? I mean, isn't the Zelazny estate mixed up in that? Aren't there fifteen different character creators and thus people with interest?

That must be a nightmare.

This thread might be dead, but I have to say, "OH HELL NAW!"

Wild Cards blows. I realize this is just my opinion, man, but I've tried the stuff several times. To me it reads like some Marty Stu dreck that Martin and his sci-fi writer buddies are churning out to meet contractual obligations. Bad pacing, bad characters, bad plots, bad universe. It's really quite astounding that Martin writes both The Song of Ice and Fire and this crap. I'm all for giving authors some slack, but every minute Martin spends writing Wild Cards is less time he has to finish SoI&F. And that's just not acceptable.

FiendishFellow05: Aw, man. I was hoping for a Tuf Voyaging mini-series, or something along those line...

Now this I could get behind.

No, no, no, NO!

HBO has GRRM until he finishes GoT.

SyFy, DON'T enable his literary ADD!