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Back in 2011, it was announced that George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards was headed for a film adaptation but the Game of Thrones author has revealed on his person blog that the superhero fantasy novel series from The Wild Cards Trust is now being developed for television. Said Martin---

 

 

“Universal Cable Productions (UCP) has acquired the rights to adapt our long-running Wild Cards series of anthologies and mosaic novels for television. Development will begin immediately on what we hope will be the first of several interlocking series. Melinda M. Snodgrass, my assistant editor and right-hand man on Wild Cards since its inception, the creator of Dr. Tachyon, Double Helix, and Franny Black, and a seasoned television writer/ producer whose credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Measure of a Man"), Reasonable Doubts, The Profiler, and Star Command, is attached as an executive producer on the project, together with Gregory Noveck of Red, Slow Learner, and SyFy Films."

 

And for those that get worried this will distract him from finishing the latest Game of Thrones books.

 

Martin goes on to make it clear that he's not going to be working on the project as his commitments to finishing A Song of Ice and Fire and his dealings with HBO on the TV adaptation currently take up all of his spare time.

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George R.R. Martin’s ‘Wild Cards’ Moves From Hulu To Peacock

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George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards, based on the popular book series, is set up at a new home. The project, which had been in development at Hulu since 2018, has moved to Peacock with UCP producing.

 

The Secret Circle creator Andrew Miller, who was previously attached to write and executive produce, is no longer involved in the project. But UCP, where Miller is under a deal, is currently in development with Miller on various scripted television and podcast projects. A search for a new writer is underway.

 

In Wild Cards, an alien pathogen known as the Wild Card virus is released over Manhattan in 1946, altering the course of human history. The virus rewrites DNA, mutating its survivors. A lucky few are granted awe-inspiring superpowers, while the sad majority are left with often repulsive physical deformities.

 

Martin, Melinda Snodgrass and Vince Gerardis, who co-edited the books with Martin, will executive produce.

 

Martin announced on his livejournal site in 2016 that UCP had acquired the rights to adapt his Wild Cards book series, with Snodgrass and Gerardis executive producing.

 

Martin, best known as the author of A Song of Ice and Fire books on which HBO’s Game of Thrones was based, previously executive produced the UCP-produced series Nightflyers, based on Martin’s novella, which aired on Syfy.

 

Additional projects in development from Universal Studio Group and Peacock include What She Said from Universal Television; All Our Wrongs Today, from UCP; and Skywatch, from UCP.

 

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Peacock is no longer all-in on George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards. The Game of Thrones creator on Monday revealed that NBCUniversal's streaming service passed on the planned live-action adaptation of the sci-fi superhero stories, which was in the works at Disney-owned Hulu before moving to Peacock in 2021. In an update published to his official blog, Martin revealed the status of several projects amid the ongoing writers' strike that has halted work on television shows and movies across the industry. That includes HBO's Game of Thrones prequel series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, which has temporarily shuttered its writers' room for the duration of the WGA Strike.

 

According to Martin: the second season of Dark Winds, which he executive produces, has already wrapped, and won't be impacted by the strike. HBO's House of the Dragon, the Thrones prequel co-created by Martin based on his book Fire & Blood, will also continue production and move forward with scripts that were completed before the WGA voted to strike on May 2nd. One show that won't be moving forward is Wild Cards, and the potential series won't search for a new home until the strike has ended.

 

"Peacock has passed on Wild Cards, alas. A pity," Martin wrote. "We will try to place it elsewhere, but not until the strike is over."

 

Comcast-owned Universal Cable Productions — behind the 2004 Battlestar Galactica revival and Netflix's The Umbrella Academy — acquired the rights to Martin's Wild Cards series of anthologies and mosaic novels in 2016. In a blog post, Martin wrote at the time that "development will begin immediately on what we hope will be the first of several interlocking series."