![]() They should have christened this ship the No Plan B.Īs always in projects like this, Stanley Kubrick’s influence looms large. At one point, a mechanical spider gets loose on the ship and start frying people with its laser-beam eyes. Meanwhile, the intelligent computer keeps doing things that make life worse for everyone. Bringing somebody like Thale on a mission as important as this seems as inadvisable as bringing a badger in a soft carrier onto a transcontinental flight and storing him beneath the seat in front of you. He makes his entrance packed into a metal storage unit/prison trailer reminiscent of the raptor containers in Jurassic Park, and never misses an opportunity to taunt and glower at other characters while beaming freaky visions into their brains. Supposedly, Thale is on board in case the crew needs to communicate with the extraterrestrials through a means other than spoken language. Both Karl and Agatha are dealing with deep recent trauma, which is to Thale as chummed water is to a shark. ![]() Agatha Matheson (Gretchen Mol), who used to be Karl’s ex. She comes on to Lommie but gets hot and bothered by Captain Eris, accusing him of peeping on her as she bathes and sleeps, and teasing him for never appearing before her in the flesh.Ĭaptain Eris has authorized a telepath named Thale (Sam Strike) to join them on the trip, along with his handler, Dr. The statuesque utility infielder Melantha Jhirl (Jodie Turner-Smith) was, we are told, “genetically engineered for space travel,” but is often presented and photographed as a Barbarella-style interstellar sexpot. Lommie (Maya Eshet) is a gender-fluid biologist with the melancholy, wonderstruck eyes of a silent movie heroine she can communicate with the onboard computer by jacking its neural network into a forearm port. Roy Eris (David Ajala), captain of the Nightflyer, stays locked in his cabin and only appears to the crew as a hologram. Then it goes back to the beginning of the voyage, showing astrophysicist Karl D’Branin (Eion Mackin) leaving his wife and daughter on Earth to lead the mission. ![]() The first episode flashes forward to a violent stalking incident on board the ship, grabbing the viewer’s attention while telegraphing what’s in store for two key characters. “We’re a virus that has killed its host, and we’re looking for a new host to infect,” says Rowan (Angus Sampson), the ship’s xenobiologist. The hope is that the aliens will gift us with knowledge that will save the species, even after we’ve soiled our nest back on Earth. Overseen, written, and sometimes directed by Jeff Buhler, the miniseries is set in 2093 on the Nightflyer, a starship leaving the solar system to make first contact with extraterrestrials. It promises to be AMC’s The Terror in space, but only delivers in fits and starts. That SyFy is releasing all ten episodes over the next week and a half, beginning Sunday night, seems like either an attempt to adapt to the Netflix/Amazon era of content dumps, or an admission that this lavishly funded effort is being burned off because it didn’t come out the way the network wanted. Martin’s novella and a series of short stories - and a same-titled 1987 film adaptation - SyFy’s Nightflyers is a encyclopedia of science fiction and horror cinema influences, but despite outstanding production values and some fine sequences of terror and body horror, it succeeds mainly at making you want to revisit the work that inspired it. The television adaptation has been in development for almost a year now at Amazon, with Glen Mazzara still attached to serve as showrunner and executive producer, whilst Media Rights Capital (MRC) are still serving as producers.Based on George R.R. The report states that Sam Strike (whose credits include Nightflyers and Mindhunter) will be playing the role of Roland Deschain and Jasper Pääkkönen (whose credits include Vikings and BlacKkKlansman) is set to play the role of Marten Broadcloak (aka The Man In Black), the character Roland is out to kill. Sources from Deadline say that the story is set to take place many years before the events depicted in the film, focusing on the origin story of Roland Deschain, how he first became a gunslinger and got his guns, his first encounter with The Man In Black, his first love and his first mission as a gunslinger. ![]() The series adaptation is said to be independent from the film adaptation released in 2017 and be a more faithful retelling of the novel. Variety is reporting that Sam Strike and Jasper Pääkkönen have been cast in lead roles in the pilot for the planned television series adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower at Amazon. ![]()
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