{"id":16456,"date":"2014-10-23T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=16456"},"modified":"2014-10-23T19:14:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T03:14:50","slug":"ann-leckies-ancillary-justice-optioned-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/news\/ann-leckies-ancillary-justice-optioned-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice<\/em> optioned for television"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Buy Ancillary Justice<\/em> by Ann Leckie: Book<\/a>\/eBook<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Ann Leckie, author of the much lauded, and many award winning, novel, Ancillary Justice<\/em>, announced on her blog<\/a> that her Imperial Radch<\/em> series has been optioned for television by Fabrik and Fox Television Studios. “They have previously worked together on The Killing<\/em> for four seasons on AMC and Netflix,” Leckie said, “and they started their relationship with Burn Notice<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Leckie warns her fans not to get too far ahead of themselves, though, citing Hollywood’s glacial pacing and labyrinthine nature. “Ancillary Justice has been optioned for TV,” she said. “Now, ‘optioned’ doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that anything is going to actually happen\u2013things get optioned and then never made, quite frequently.’<\/p>\n

With the production of a television adaptation of James S.A. Corey’s Expanse<\/em> series in full production, this is a great time to be a fan of televised science fiction. Though the question begs to be asked, where Corey’s work is straight forward science fiction with all the fixins for television, Leckie’s series is a whole different beast, and many of its strongest facets \u2014 such as its handling of gender, and its protagonist’s preternatural cognitive abilities granted to her as an ancillary \u2014 may prove difficult to adapt to a television script.<\/p>\n

“Bringing [Ancillary Justice<\/em>] to any sort of screen (not counting your eReader screen, of course!) would be\u2026 an interestingly difficult project,” Leckie admitted. “I made sure to have a conversation with the folks at Fabrik about my specific concerns\u2013namely, the approach to gender, and the issue of whitewashing (as in, I do not want to see the book whitewashed, I would like to namedrop LeGuin and mention her Earthsea experience here, thank you). I was very pleased with their response.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ann Leckie, author of the much lauded, and many award winning, novel, Ancillary Justice, announced on her blog that her Imperial Radch series has been optioned for television by Fabrik and Fox Television Studios. “They have previously worked together on The Killing for four seasons on AMC and Netflix,” Leckie said, “and they started their… Ancillary Justice<\/em> optioned for television”>Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[731,824,730,107,59,53,1014],"class_list":["post-16456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ancillary-justice","tag-ancillary-sword","tag-ann-leckie","tag-orbit-books","tag-science-fiction","tag-television","tag-the-imperial-radch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n