Amazon Studios to Adapt Consider Phlebas, First Novel of the Culture Series, for Television
February 21 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Dennis Kelly set to write the series, Plan B to
produce
The Culture, a fictional interstellar utopian
society from author Iain M. Banks is being adapted for television
for the first time, to come to life exclusively on Prime Video
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon Studios today announced it has acquired
the global television rights to the Culture’s first novel Consider
Phlebas. The famed space opera by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks
features Banks’ fictional interstellar utopian society, the
Culture. The series will be adapted by Dennis Kelly (Utopia,
Matilda) with Plan B Entertainment (World War Z, 12 Years a Slave,
The Big Short, Moonlight, Feud) slated to produce and the Estate of
Iain Banks attached as Executive Producer.
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A kinetic, action-packed adventure on a huge canvas, Consider
Phlebas draws upon the extraordinary world and mythology Banks
created in the Culture, in which a highly advanced and progressive
society ends up at war with the Idirans, a deeply religious,
warlike race intent on dominating the entire galaxy.
The story centers on Horza, a rogue agent tasked by the Idirans
with the impossible mission of recovering a missing Culture ‘Mind,’
an artificial intelligence many thousands of times smarter than any
human—something that could hold the key to wiping out the Culture
altogether. What unfolds, with Banks’ trademark irreverent humor,
ultimately asks the poignant question of how we can use technology
to preserve our humanity, not surrender it.
“The story of the Culture is so rich and captivating that for
years Hollywood has been trying to bring this utopian society to
life on the screen,” said Sharon Tal Yguado, Head of Scripted
Series at Amazon Studios. “We are honored that we have been chosen,
along with Dennis Kelly and Plan B Entertainment, to make Consider
Phlebas into a television series we think will be loved by fans for
years to come.”
“Iain Banks has long been a hero of mine, and his innate warmth,
humor and humanism shines through these novels,” said Dennis Kelly.
“Far from being the dystopian nightmares that we are used to, Banks
creates a kind of flawed paradise, a society truly worth fighting
for—rather than a warning from the future, his books are a
beckoning.”
“We revere the work of Iain Banks and continue to be moved by
his inimitable spirit and his commitment to imagining a better
future even in the darkest of times,” said Plan B. “Consider
Phlebas, simultaneously explores the deepest questions concerning
humanity and our future. We are so grateful to the Estate of Iain
Banks for the opportunity to bring his work to life, and to Amazon
for the scope of their ambition to building Iain’s prescient
world.”
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