‘Star Trek’ Alum Jonathan Frakes to Direct Sci-Fi Adaptation of ‘Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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Jonathan Frakes has joined the producing and creative team of Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘Venus Prime’ series adaptation.
  • Value SubtractedOPMAEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m not familiar with Venus Prime - it’s apparently based on the short story Breaking Strain, which has been spun into a novel series by Paul Preuss.

    • CorganaEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Thank you for posting this. I am a big Arthur C Clarke fan and had never heard of it, and my google-fu turned up nothing.

    • StillPaisleyCatEnglish
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      4 months ago

      ‘Venus Prime’ is the way the novelizations were branded and marketed starting with the first book ‘Breaking Strain’ in 1987.

      As you can see from the cover image, it was an early example of the ‘hot babe with powers’ marketing approach.

        • StillPaisleyCatEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Her hair even goes white-blond as of book 2. LOL

          I have observed elsewhere that no women are announced in the creative team. I hope they get a strong female-presenting A-list lead who insists on EP status.