Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteM to Quark's@startrek.websiteEnglish · 6 months ago‘Star Trek’ Alum Jonathan Frakes to Direct Sci-Fi Adaptation of ‘Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime’variety.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down11
arrow-up168arrow-down1external-link‘Star Trek’ Alum Jonathan Frakes to Direct Sci-Fi Adaptation of ‘Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime’variety.comValue Subtracted@startrek.websiteM to Quark's@startrek.websiteEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareValue Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 months agoI’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.
minus-squareCorgana@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoThank 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.
minus-squareStillPaisleyCat@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 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.
minus-squareValue Subtracted@startrek.websiteOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoBrannon Braga, eat your heart out!
minus-squareStillPaisleyCat@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoHer 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.
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.
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.
‘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.
Brannon Braga, eat your heart out!
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.