Calling it the “boldest new series commitment to date,” Syfy President Dave Howe announced the network has given a 10 episode season one order to The Expanse. The space-opera series comes from the screenwriting team of Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Cowboys & Aliens, Children of Men) who are on board as executive producers as well as writers.
Announcing the greenlighting of the show straight to series, Howe said, “The Expanse is epic in scale and scope and promises to be Syfy’s most ambitious series to date. Bringing this coveted book franchise to television with our partners at Alcon and the Sean Daniel Company is a giant win for Syfy, reinforcing our overall strategy to produce bold, provocative and compelling sci-fi fantasy stories. The Expanse joins a killer line-up of high-concept, high quality series, along with recently announced original projects Ascension, 12 Monkeys, the renewal of Helix, and the soon to premiere Dominion.”
The TV series is based on The Expanse book series from Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck writing under the name James S.A. Corey. Abraham and Franck are attached as producers along with Ben Cook. Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson (Alcon co-founders and co-CEOs) are executive producing, as are Sharon Hall, Sean Daniel, and Jason Brown.
According to Alcon, the search is on for the cast and directors.
The Plot:
A thriller set two hundred years in the future, The Expanse follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship’s captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Source: Syfy
-By Rebecca Murray
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