Over six seasons, Game of Thrones fans have been immersed in a vast world with thousands of years of detailed history, hundreds of characters, and dozens of brutal deaths. It's a world that will be the setting for possibly four new spinoff series on HBO and still two more seasons of its main storyline adapted from George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy saga The Song of Ice and Fire.

But Martin's next TV show is very far away from Westeros. It's a different world, a different time, a different universe in fact.

Syfy has ordered a pilot for a new show based on Martin's novella Nightflyers. Written in 1980, the original novella follows eight scientists and a telepath who have set out on a mission to contact alien life in the far reaches of the solar system. But the crew members on their ship The Nightflyer start to mysteriously die one by one. At least that last part sounds like Game of Thrones. The novella's path to television is a little confusing, as Martin sold the Nightflyers film and TV rights to Robert Jaffe in 1984, who produced the 1987 film by Robert Collector. So, this new TV show is technically based off the 1987 movie, as Martin recently described on his Livejournal:

This new NIGHTFLYERS television series -- actually, it is just a pilot script at present, still several steps short of going on-air, but I am told that SyFy likes the script a lot -- was developed based on the 1987 movie, and the television rights conveyed in that old 1984 contract. Robert Jaffe is one of the producers, I see, but the pilot script is by Jeff Buhler. I haven't had the chance to meet him yet, but hope to do so in the near future. Since I have an overall deal that makes me exclusive to HBO, I can't provide any writing or producing series to NIGHTFLYERS should it go to series... but of course, I wish Jaffe and Buhler and their team the best of luck. "Nightflyers" was one of my best SF stories, I always felt, and I'd love to see it succeed as a TV series (fingers crossed that it looks as good as THE EXPANSE).

This new series will come from executive producers Gene Klein, David Bartis, and Doug Liman of Hypnotic. But honestly, maybe we don't even need a new series, because this trailer for the 1987 movie looks awesome.

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