{"id":441,"date":"2017-06-24T19:05:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T19:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=441"},"modified":"2017-06-27T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T18:41:15","slug":"syfy-greenlights-nightflyers-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/06\/24\/syfy-greenlights-nightflyers-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"SyFy Greenlights NIGHTFLYERS Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some cool news for the fans of my Thousand Worlds stories&#8230; y&#8217;know, the science fiction that I wrote way back when, long before I thought of GAME OF THRONES.<\/p>\n<p>The SyFy Channel has just greenlit the pilot for a proposed NIGHTFLYERS series, based on my 1980 Hugo-losing novella, one of my SF\/ horror hybrids.  <\/p>\n<p>Details can be found here (and in lots of other places on the web):<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/george-rr-martins-nightflyers-picked-up-pilot-at-syfy-1016296'>http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-f<wbr \/>eed\/george-rr-martins-nightflyers-picked-u<wbr \/>p-pilot-at-syfy-1016296<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m exclusive to HBO, I can&#8217;t be part of the NIGHTFLYERS development, but I wish them well.  The novella was a favorite of mine (especially the longer version that I did for BINARY STARS), and I think the show could have a lot of potential&#8230; especially if you like a little horror in your SF.  <\/p>\n<p>If it looks as good as THE EXPANSE, by my pal Jimmy Corey&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>(That pic up above is me and Parris at Denvention II, by the way, the night that &#8220;Nightflyers&#8221; lost the Hugo to Gordy Dickson).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some cool news for the fans of my Thousand Worlds stories&#8230; y&#8217;know, the science fiction that I wrote way back when, long before I thought of GAME OF THRONES. The SyFy Channel has just greenlit the pilot for a proposed NIGHTFLYERS series, based on my 1980 Hugo-losing novella, one of my SF\/ horror hybrids. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,18],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}