from GeekTyrant:
David Hayter, the screenwriter of films such as Watchmen and X-Men has been hired to adapt Anne McCaffrey’s classic sci-fi and fantasy book series The Dragonriders of Pern for the big screen.
Dragonflight is the first book in the series, and it will be the first film to get the big screen treatment. The story follows an elite group of warriors take to the skies on the backs of giant, fire-breathing, telepathic dragons to save the wondrously exotic planet of Pern from a terrifying airborne menace.
The film is being produced by Benedict Carver’s Dark Hero Studios, Don Murphy and Susan Montford’s Angry Films and Entertainment One. I’m sure they hope that his new series really takes off and becomes a successful franchise.
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