![]() ![]() “Who’s going to watch four seasons of a spaceship full of corpses?” “I was like, ‘What’s going to be in the fourth episode?’” Martin said. True to Martin’s penchant for killing off key figures, the original story, about a team of scientists on a haunted spaceship trying to make contact with a mysterious alien race, had seven of eight characters dying in quick succession. “And then somebody bought those rights, and then somebody else bought those rights, and so on,” he said, until the chain eventually led to Syfy and Universal Cable Productions, the producing studio. ![]() When he heard that the show was in development, he said, his first reaction was shock and outrage: “Wait a minute! How can they make a TV series? No one purchased any rights from me!” But when he read the fine print in the movie rights contract he signed in 1984 (resulting in a poorly received 1987 adaptation), he realized the TV rights had been included. Martin was surprised to learn that his 1980 novella “Nightflyers” was being turned into a television series by Syfy, mainly because he hadn’t realized that he’d sold the TV rights to it. ![]()
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