Children of Men: The Television Series ?

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Children of Men: The Television Series ?

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Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men was one of my top 10 movies of 2006. When I saw the movie I was so enamored with this post-apocalyptic world where women have become infertile, and no one had been born in the last 16 years. Basically it’s a world where everyone is living in knowledge that they are the last generation on earth. It’s an interesting place for a story, and I always wished it could be explored at more length.

And now my wish might be granted, as it was announced at last week’s SciFi upfronts that David Eick, writer-producer on the Battlestar Galactica and Bionic Woman contemporary remakes, is writing a pilot script for a series based on Children of Men. Of course in the movie, loosely adapted from the book (from what I understand the film used the story concept and not much more), “a disillusioned government agent agrees to help transport and protect a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea where her child’s birth may help scientists to save the future of mankind.”
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For a better treatment of the subject of global infertility, read Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale." Far more frightening than 1984.

Apparently, there is a movie made of this,... but I suspect Atwood's mastery is not well translated to the screen. Hard to really convey a woman's inner conflict with a society where fertile women are a precious commodity... and she is the attendant to their labor.

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