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Frederik Pohl’s Gateway on Your TV?
The late great Frederik Pohl‘s most famous novel may be coming to the small screen soon. The film rights to Gateway have been purchased at auction by Entertainment One Television in collaboration with De Laurentiis Co. who plan to develop and produce a TV drama series adapted from the book. Details seem to be a bit sketchy at this point but you can read a bit more about it on Pohl’s site: The Way the Future Blogs. Hopefully we’ll get more info soon to whet our appetites.
I think Gateway lends itself pretty easily to an episodic television show. It’s pure adventure and there’s plenty of room to build stories around desperate crews risking their lives on the HeeChee ships. You could even frame the show around Robinette Broadhead recounting his adventures to his holographic shrink!
I think it will be interesting to see what they can do with a Hugo, Nebula, Locus SF and Campbell award winning novel that’s also a SF Masterwork and shows on seven other best of lists! Of course, there’s a huge downside to attempting to make a show based on a fan favorite like Gateway but, like Bob, the show runners think it’s worth a roll of the dice.
