SyFy's Childhood's End Miniseries Taps Director
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- August 15, 2014
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)
Growing up, some of my favorite novels came from the A, B, C’s of science fiction– that is, Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov is my all time favorite science fiction series but when it comes to single novels, nothing tops my two-way tie favorites A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke. The latter of which I even have a custom leather bound edition made for me when I was in high school.
Last year, SyFy announced that producer Michael De Luca (The Social Network, American History X) was putting together a miniseries based on Childhood’s End. Deadline is reporting that things are moving forward on the project as a six-hour miniseries to be produced by the aforementioned De Luca and Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind). They’ve hired Nick Hurran who’s known for directing many Doctor Who episodes including the 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor to direct the miniseries along with television writer (and fellow Doctor Who alumni) Matthew Graham.
The other projects that were announced to be in development last year were adaptations of Larry Niven’s Ringworld, Philip K. Dick's The Man In The High Castle, Stephen King's Eyes Of The Dragon and Darkfall. Of these Childhood’s End is set to be the first to get the greenlight while The Man In The High Castle was picked up by Amazon.
SyFy has been criticized for shifting away from science-fiction based films and television shows and towards paranormal “reality” shows and bad B-films like Sharknado. To their credit, the Sharknado series has been very popular and I enjoy bad schlock sometimes with the best of them. But I really wish they would also make some good sci-fi as well.
Their Dune and Children of Dune miniseries were absolutely fantastic and with upcoming projects like Ascension and the 12 Monkeys reimagining it seems that SyFy wants to return to their roots of television programming. Childhood’s End would be a great addition to some of SyFy’s best works in sci-fi adaptations and with the team they’ve assembled, it looks like we’ll get a solid six hours of drama and excitement.
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