“Bionic Woman” executive producer David Eick told SCI-FI Wire that he is working on a pilot script for a television series based on P.D. James’ science-fiction novel “The Children of Men”, which was adapted into a film in 2006 directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring Clive Owen.
The series will not go down the same war-torn path the film took, instead Eick tells SCI-FI, “It’s really taking root more in the origins of the novels in that it will focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the society’s utter focus… Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something [and] it becomes the headline of every news show, it’s about how, when you don’t have a responsibility to the next generation and you’re free to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line?”
The approach will look at the world as if the human species will not survive and will question how society defines responsibility, freedom and a sense of values in such a situation.
Eick is working on the script now while he is also wrapped up in the fourth and final season of “Battlestar Galactica” as well as the prequel movie Caprica, which is already in the works.
