lynnmcguire5@gmail.com wrote:

>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/earth-abides-tv-show-alexander-
ludwig-1235859909/
>
>MGM+ is doing a new take on George R. Stewart�s post-apocalyptic
>novel with showrunner Todd Komarnicki.
>
>This will probably be cool.
>
>Lynn

George R. Stewart�s classic sci-fi novel Earth Abides has been officially
greenlit as a limited series for streaming channel MGM+.

The story follows the aftermath of a global plague and is being adapted by
creator and showrunner Todd Komarnicki (Sully), and has signed Alexander
Ludwig (Vikings, The Covenant) to star. Previously announced as in
development, MGM+ plans six episodes to tell the 1949 book�s tale.

From the official description: �Leading character Ish (Ludwig) is a brilliant
but solitary young geologist living a semi-isolated life who awakens from a
coma only to find that there is no one left alive but him. A plague of
unprecedented virulence has swept the globe, and yes, there are a few
scattered survivors, but there are no rules. His journey is to learn the
difference between sanctuary and survival and to open his heart to love if
he is to find meaning in his life after the great machine of civilization has
broken down.�

Stephen King has said Earth Abides was one of his inspirations for his famed
novel The Stand.

�It has been an unmitigated thrill to adapt such a seminal sci-fi work, and
the themes illuminated by George Stewart 75 years ago could not be more
meaningful and timelier for the world we are living in today,� said
Komarnicki. �Despite the chaos and division that greets us every morning in
the news, the truth remains that the way forward for society is through unity,
compassion, forgiveness, understanding, and grace.�

�It�s very special to reintroduce Earth Abides to fans of George Stewart�s
seminal work of science fiction, as well as to a new generation,� added
Michael Wright, head of MGM+. �The story�s messages of humanity, hope, and
compassion are as relevant today as they were nearly a century ago.�

Earth Abides will begin production in Vancouver on April 8 and is expected
to premiere later this year.

The series is produced by MGM+ Studios and executive producers Kearie Peak
and Lighthouse Productions� Michael Phillips and Juliana Maio.

--
Let's go Brandon!

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> lynnmcguire5@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/earth-abides-tv-show-alexander-
> ludwig-1235859909/
>>
>> MGM+ is doing a new take on George R. Stewart’s post-apocalyptic
>> novel with showrunner Todd Komarnicki.
>>
>> This will probably be cool.
>>
>> Lynn
>
> George R. Stewart’s classic sci-fi novel Earth Abides has been officially
> greenlit as a limited series for streaming channel MGM+.

NOBODY GETS MGM+!!!

Not even me because my six free months for buying a fire stick just lapsed.

> The story follows the aftermath of a global plague and is being adapted by
> creator and showrunner Todd Komarnicki (Sully), and has signed Alexander
> Ludwig (Vikings, The Covenant) to star. Previously announced as in
> development, MGM+ plans six episodes to tell the 1949 book’s tale.
>
> From the official description: “Leading character Ish (Ludwig) is a brilliant
> but solitary young geologist living a semi-isolated life who awakens from a
> coma only to find that there is no one left alive but him. A plague of
> unprecedented virulence has swept the globe, and yes, there are a few
> scattered survivors, but there are no rules. His journey is to learn the
> difference between sanctuary and survival and to open his heart to love if
> he is to find meaning in his life after the great machine of civilization has
> broken down.”
>
> Stephen King has said Earth Abides was one of his inspirations for his famed
> novel The Stand.
>
> “It has been an unmitigated thrill to adapt such a seminal sci-fi work, and
> the themes illuminated by George Stewart 75 years ago could not be more
> meaningful and timelier for the world we are living in today,” said
> Komarnicki. “Despite the chaos and division that greets us every morning in
> the news, the truth remains that the way forward for society is through unity,
> compassion, forgiveness, understanding, and grace.”
>
> “It’s very special to reintroduce Earth Abides to fans of George Stewart’s
> seminal work of science fiction, as well as to a new generation,” added
> Michael Wright, head of MGM+. “The story’s messages of humanity, hope, and
> compassion are as relevant today as they were nearly a century ago.”
>
> Earth Abides will begin production in Vancouver on April 8 and is expected
> to premiere later this year.
>
> The series is produced by MGM+ Studios and executive producers Kearie Peak
> and Lighthouse Productions’ Michael Phillips and Juliana Maio.
>
> --
> Let's go Brandon!
>
>

--
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

On 4/10/24 10:05 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> lynnmcguire5@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/earth-abides-tv-show-alexander-
>>> ludwig-1235859909/
>>>
>>> MGM+ is doing a new take on George R. Stewart’s post-apocalyptic
>>> novel with showrunner Todd Komarnicki.
>>>
>>> This will probably be cool.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>
>> George R. Stewart’s classic sci-fi novel Earth Abides has been officially
>> greenlit as a limited series for streaming channel MGM+.
>
> NOBODY GETS MGM+!!!

^This.

> Not even me because my six free months for buying a fire stick just lapsed.

On 4/10/2024 2:00 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 4/10/24 10:05 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>
>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>> lynnmcguire5@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/earth-abides-tv-show-alexander-
>>>> ludwig-1235859909/
>>>>
>>>> MGM+ is doing a new take on George R. Stewart’s post-apocalyptic
>>>> novel with showrunner Todd Komarnicki.
>>>>
>>>> This will probably be cool.
>>>>
>>>> Lynn
>>>
>>> George R. Stewart’s classic sci-fi novel Earth Abides has been
>>> officially
>>> greenlit as a limited series for streaming channel MGM+.
>>
>> NOBODY GETS MGM+!!!
>
> ^This.
>
>> Not even me because my six free months for buying a fire stick just
>> lapsed.

I have such fond memories (albeit without particulars) of reading this
novel in high school that I wish its adaptation were being undertaken by
one of the more highbrow outfits.

In article <uv5ugd$topp$9@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

> George R. Stewart's classic sci-fi novel EARTH ABIDES has been officially
> greenlit as a limited series for streaming channel MGM+.
>
> The story follows the aftermath of a global plague and is being adapted by
> creator and showrunner Todd Komarnicki (Sully), and has signed Alexander
> Ludwig (Vikings, The Covenant) to star. Previously announced as in
> development, MGM+ plans six episodes to tell the 1949 book's tale.
>
> From the official description: "Leading character Ish (Ludwig) is a brilliant
> but solitary young geologist living a semi-isolated life who awakens from a
> coma

If he's living an isolated life, who was feeding him and caring for him
while he was in a coma?

> only to find that there is no one left alive but him.

Again, how was he eating while comatose if he's the only one left alive?

On 4/10/2024 3:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <uv5ugd$topp$9@dont-email.me>,
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> George R. Stewart's classic sci-fi novel EARTH ABIDES has been officially
>> greenlit as a limited series for streaming channel MGM+.
>>
>> The story follows the aftermath of a global plague and is being adapted by
>> creator and showrunner Todd Komarnicki (Sully), and has signed Alexander
>> Ludwig (Vikings, The Covenant) to star. Previously announced as in
>> development, MGM+ plans six episodes to tell the 1949 book's tale.
>>
>> From the official description: "Leading character Ish (Ludwig) is a brilliant
>> but solitary young geologist living a semi-isolated life who awakens from a
>> coma
>
> If he's living an isolated life, who was feeding him and caring for him
> while he was in a coma?
>
>> only to find that there is no one left alive but him.
>
> Again, how was he eating while comatose if he's the only one left alive?

ust as he pulled himself up to the rock ledge, he heard a sudden rattle,
and felt a prick of fangs. Automatically he jerked back his right hand;
turning his head, he saw the snake, coiled and menacing. It was not a
large one, he noted, even at the moment when he raised his hand to his
lips and sucked hard at the base of the index finger, where a little
drop of blood was oozing out.

“Don’t waste time by killing the snake!” he remembered.

He slid down from the ledge, still sucking. At the bottom he saw the
hammer lying where he had left it. For a moment he thought he would go
on and leave it there. That seemed like panic; so he stooped and picked
it up with his left hand, and went on down the rough trail.

He did not hurry. He knew better than that. Hurry only speeded up a
man’s heart, and made the venom circulate faster. Yet his heart was
pounding so rapidly from excitement or fear that hurrying or not
hurrying, it seemed, should make no difference. After he had come to
some trees, he took his handkerchief and bound it around his right
wrist. With the aid of a twig he twisted the handkerchief into a crude
tourniquet.

Walking on, he felt himself recovering from his panic. His heart was
slowing down. As he considered the situation, he was not greatly afraid.
He was a young man, vigorous and healthy. Such a bite would hardly be
fatal, even though he was by himself and without good means of treatment.

Now he saw the cabin ahead of him. His hand felt stiff. Just before he
got to the cabin, he stopped and loosened the tourniquet, as he had read
should be done, and let the blood circulate in the hand. Then he
tightened it again.

He pushed open the door, dropping the hammer on the floor as he did so.
It fell, handle up, on its heavy head, rocked back and forth for a
moment, and then stood still, handle in the air.

He looked into the drawer of the table, and found his snake-bite outfit,
which he should have been carrying with him on this day of all days.
Quickly he followed the directions, slicing with the razor-blade a neat
little crisscross over the mark of the fangs, applying the rubber
suction-pump. Then he lay on his bunk watching the rubber bulb slowly
expand, as it sucked the blood out.

He felt no premonitions of death. Rather, the whole matter still seemed
to him just a nuisance. People had kept telling him that he should not
go into the mountains by himself—“Without even a dog!” they used to add.
He had always laughed at them. A dog was constant trouble, getting mixed
up with porcupines or skunks, and he was not fond of dogs anyway. Now
all those people would say, “Well, we warned you!”

Tossing about half-feverishly, he now seemed to himself to be composing
a defense. “Perhaps,” he would say, “the very danger in it appealed to
me!” (That had a touch of the heroic in it.) More truthfully he might
say, “I like to be alone at times, really need to escape from all the
problems of dealing with people.” His best defense, however, would
merely be that, at least during the last year, he had gone into the
mountains alone as a matter of business. As a graduate student, he was
working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area. He had to
investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and
animals in this region. Obviously he could not wait until just the right
companion came along. In any case, he could never see that there was any
great danger. Although nobody lived within five miles of his cabin,
during the summer hardly a day passed without some fisherman coming by,
driving his car up the rocky road or merely following the stream.

Yet, come to think of it, when had he last seen a fisherman? Not in the
past week certainly. He could not actually remember whether he had seen
one in the two weeks that he had been living by himself in the cabin.
There was that car he had heard go by after dark one night. He thought
it strange that any car would be going up that road in the darkness, and
could hardly see the necessity, for ordinarily people camped down below
for the night and went up in the morning. But perhaps, he thought, they
wanted to get up to their favorite stream, to go out for some early fishing.

No, actually, he had not exchanged a word with anyone in the last two
weeks, and he could not even remember that he had seen anyone.

A throb of pain brought him back to what was happening at the moment.
The hand was beginning to swell. He loosened the tourniquet to let the
blood circulate again.

Yes, as he returned to his thoughts, he realized that he was out of
touch with things entirely. He had no radio. Therefore, as far as he was
concerned, there might have been a crash of the stock market or another
Pearl Harbor; something like that would account for so few fishermen
going by. At any rate, there was very little chance apparently that
anyone would come to help him. He would have to work his own way out.

Yet even that prospect did not alarm him. At worst, he considered, he
would lie up in his cabin, with plenty of food and water for two or
three days, until the swelling in his hand subsided and he could drive
his car down to Johnson’s, the first ranch.

The afternoon wore on. He did not feel like eating anything when it came
toward suppertime, but he made himself a pot of coffee on the gasoline
stove, and drank several cups. He was in much pain, but in spite of the
pain and in spite of the coffee he became sleepy. . . .

He woke suddenly in half-light, and realized that someone had pushed
open the cabin door. He felt a sudden relief to know that he had help.
Two men in city clothes were standing there, very decent-looking men,
although staring around strangely, as if in fright. “I’m sick!” he said
from his bunk, and suddenly he saw the fright on their faces change to
sheer panic. They turned suddenly without even shutting the door, and
ran. A moment later came the sound of a starting motor. It faded out as
the car went up the road.

Appalled now for the first time, he raised himself from the bunk, and
looked through the window. The car had already vanished around the
curve. He could not understand. Why had they suddenly disappeared in
panic, without even offering to help?

He got up. The light was in the east; so he had slept until dawn the
next morning. His right hand was swollen and acutely painful. Otherwise
he did not feel very ill. He warmed up the pot of coffee, made himself
some oatmeal, and lay down in his bunk again, in the hope that after a
while he would feel well enough to risk driving down to Johnson’s—that
is, of course, if no one came along in the meantime who would stop and
help him and not like those others, who must be crazy, run away at the
sight of a sick man.

Soon, however, he felt much worse, and realized that he must be
suffering some kind of relapse. By the middle of the afternoon he was
really frightened. Lying in his bunk, he composed a note, thinking that
he should leave a record of what had happened. It would not be very long
of course before someone would find him; his parents would certainly
telephone Johnson’s in a few days now, if they did not hear anything.
Scrawling with his left hand, he managed to get the words onto paper. He
signed merely Ish. It was too much work to write out his full name of
Isherwood Williams, and everybody knew him by his nickname.

At noon, feeling himself like the shipwrecked mariner who from his raft
sees the steamer cross along the horizon, he heard the sound of cars,
two of them, coming up the steep road. They approached, and then went
on, without stopping. He called to them, but by now he was weak, and his
voice, he was sure, did not carry the hundred yards to the turnoff where
the cars were passing.

Even so, before dusk he struggled to his feet, and lighted the kerosene
lamp. He did not want to be left in the dark.

Apprehensively, he bent his lanky body down to peer into the little
mirror, set too low for him because of the sloping roof of the cabin.
His long face was thin always, and scarcely seemed thinner now, but a
reddish flush showed through the suntan of his cheeks. His big blue eyes
were bloodshot, and stared back at him wildly with the glare of fever.
His light brown hair, unruly always, now stuck out in all directions,
completing the mirror-portrait of a very sick young man.

On 4/10/2024 4:58 PM, Jay E. Morris wrote:
> On 4/10/2024 3:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> In article <uv5ugd$topp$9@dont-email.me>,
>>   Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>
>>> George R. Stewart's classic sci-fi novel EARTH ABIDES has been
>>> officially
>>> greenlit as a limited series for streaming channel MGM+.
>>>
>>> The story follows the aftermath of a global plague and is being
>>> adapted by
>>> creator and showrunner Todd Komarnicki (Sully), and has signed Alexander
>>> Ludwig (Vikings, The Covenant) to star. Previously announced as in
>>> development, MGM+ plans six episodes to tell the 1949 book's tale.
>>>
>>>  From the official description: "Leading character Ish (Ludwig) is a
>>> brilliant
>>> but solitary young geologist living a semi-isolated life who awakens
>>> from a
>>> coma
>>
>> If he's living an isolated life, who was feeding him and caring for him
>> while he was in a coma?
>>
>>> only to find that there is no one left alive but him.
>>
>> Again, how was he eating while comatose if he's the only one left alive?
>
> ust as he pulled himself up to the rock ledge, he heard a sudden rattle,
> and felt a prick of fangs. Automatically he jerked back his right hand;
> turning his head, he saw the snake, coiled and menacing. It was not a
> large one, he noted, even at the moment when he raised his hand to his

Premature ctrl-enter

THat's from the book. As usual they appear to have changed the how
(suprise!) unnecessarily.

On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:05:22 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> lynnmcguire5@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/earth-abides-tv-show-alexander-
>> ludwig-1235859909/
>>>
>>> MGM+ is doing a new take on George R. Stewart’s post-apocalyptic
>>> novel with showrunner Todd Komarnicki.
>>>
>>> This will probably be cool.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>
>> George R. Stewart’s classic sci-fi novel Earth Abides has been officially
>> greenlit as a limited series for streaming channel MGM+.
>
>NOBODY GETS MGM+!!!
>
>Not even me because my six free months for buying a fire stick just lapsed.

I have rented (if not "on Prime") or streamed (if "on Prime") -- and I
suspect they were all rented -- films that start out with the "MGM+"
logo. I vaguely recall other such streaming service logos appearing
from time to time.

My best guess is that Amazon is renting out some films in conjunction
with other streaming services. This might explain the large number of
older DCAU films and the Godzilla films that popped up last year (or
perhaps 2022) and which I am finally coming to the end of. I should
clarify that I did not rent them all at once, but spread them out a
bit. This makes them seem endless, but more entertaining as they are
separated by other items.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:30:47 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:

>Earth Abides will begin production in Vancouver on April 8 and is expected
>to premiere later this year.

Interesting - I live in Vancouver and have heard nothing about it.

(My favorite scene shot locally was the death of John Smith in the Man
in the High Castle which was shot about 2 miles from here)

On 4/10/2024 3:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <uv5ugd$topp$9@dont-email.me>,
> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> George R. Stewart's classic sci-fi novel EARTH ABIDES has been officially
>> greenlit as a limited series for streaming channel MGM+.
>>
>> The story follows the aftermath of a global plague and is being adapted by
>> creator and showrunner Todd Komarnicki (Sully), and has signed Alexander
>> Ludwig (Vikings, The Covenant) to star. Previously announced as in
>> development, MGM+ plans six episodes to tell the 1949 book's tale.
>>
>> From the official description: "Leading character Ish (Ludwig) is a brilliant
>> but solitary young geologist living a semi-isolated life who awakens from a
>> coma
>
> If he's living an isolated life, who was feeding him and caring for him
> while he was in a coma?
>
>> only to find that there is no one left alive but him.
>
> Again, how was he eating while comatose if he's the only one left alive?

I would advise reading the book as it is excellent.

Lynn