Will the success of the patchy but watchable Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles start a trend of U.S. TV networks adapting films into TV series? The answer seems to be yes.

Sci Fi Wire are reporting that David Eick, exec producer on Bionic Woman (which has been gladly cancelled), is writing a pilot for a TV series of Children of Men. You may remember the Alfonso Cuaron directed and Clive Owen starring science fiction film of last year, in which a man attempts to rescue the last pregnant woman on the planet. It did reasonably well in theatres and is becoming quite the cult classic.

Eick’s script will not, however, be an extension of the feature film, but rather will revert back to the source novel, written by PD James, a member of UK Parliament. The TV series, if made, will deal with the political and social upheaveal that was left in the background for Cuaron’s movie.

It’s an interesting idea for a series- the charting of a dystopia which collapses when the human species becomes infertile. However, what made Children of Men (the movie) so enjoyable was the excellent direction, in which the extended action sequences were shot in one, complex take, maximising the tension. A TV series could never be as ambitious.

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