Nightflyers

[Al Jackson]

George R R Martin's Nightflyers is about to appear on SyFy.
I am not particularly interested in this one . The novella seemed to borrow it's basic horror from the 1951 Thing from Another World , and it was published in the wake of Alien. As prose it is kinda sorta interesting but I was a bit underwhelmed by it.
My sense of things is that it will only get one season.

 

[BAYLOR]

Ive never read the book not seen the movie that they did in the 1980's . baed on the syfy trailer , it looks a bit like an Outer Limits story.

 

[Al Jackson]

Ive never read the book not seen the movie that they did in the 1980's . baed on the syfy trailer , it looks a bit like an Outer Limits story.

I found the 1987 film version of Nightflyers to be more of a re-imagined treatment than an adaptation. George himself was not happy with the film. I found it to be lackluster and derivative. It has 4 rating on IMDB which is just as well.
I am not much interested in this new version I am looking forward to Wild Cards as visual narrative.