Bradley Cooper bringing Hyperion series to TV

[MWagner]

Actor Bradley Cooper is a big fan of the Hyperion series and has been trying to get it adapted to TV four years. He's written a treatment of it already himself, and wants to script it. The series will air on the SyFy channel in the U.S.

http://io9.com/dan-simmons-fan-bradley-cooper-is-finally-making-his-hy-1710428755

 

[Vince W]

Let's see:

Actor who writes, directs, and stars in project. Check.
Difficult subject matter. Check.
Been in development hell for years. Check.
Only SyFy will produce it. Check.

I'm calling it.

 

[MWagner]

I doubt he stars in it. Cooper is an A-lister these days. He doesn't have time to star in a TV series.

It's good to see a star use his influence to get a difficult project like Hyperion green-lit. That's often the only way these things get made.

 

[BAYLOR]

Let's see:

Actor who writes, directs, and stars in project. Check.
Difficult subject matter. Check.
Been in development hell for years. Check.
Only SyFy will produce it. Check.

I'm calling it.

Im hopeful that it might be at least entertaining . But I'm not holding my breath.

 

[Nick66]

Not sure about this. I wish HBO or maybe even AMC or Showtime were handling things.

 

[Ajid]

Is there any news on this?

I've finaly finished The Fall Of Hyperion and can kind of see it restructured as a series of 4 films but I'm worried about it as a TV series. I'm worried it would become popular after a first season, they'd see dollar signs then try and stretch it out, where as a set of films will mean they tell it self contained as it should be without embellished character stories flying off in all directions with random flashbacks like lost. I think that The Hyperion Cantos is the first thing I've read since a small boy, reading Lord Of The Rings, that I'm desperate to see realised. And I wasn't as dissapointed as I thought I'd be by LOTR, I was with the hobbit though.