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Topic: Un-produced Dragonriders of Pern TV series

Ok, I'm at enough of a loss to come to the experts smile

I'm currently taking another dip into some of my "comfort" books, the first 6 or so Dragonriders of Pern books by Anne McCaffrey. They go down hill once she starts trying to work out a back story and I still haven't made it past All the Weyrs of Pern, but the ones I like I really like (particularly the audio books). Anyways, my mind today wandered to the last serious attempt to film this story: a 2001 Ron Moore (of Trek and Battlestar Galactica fame) TV series for the WB.

This was going to happen. They cast the actors. They built the sets. He wrote the 2 hour pilot, then sent the script for a final approval. Literally a day before the first day of shooting, the script comes back... with requested changes done by another writer that turned it into a Buffy clone. Moore insisted the show stick closer to the books, the studio held firm, and production shut down.
http://www.trektoday.com/news/050401_04.shtml
http://www.annemccaffreyfans.org/forum/ … -2151.html

Now, my searches have come up with little apart from a) the script and some production art is floating around, and b) it's obviously floating where I can't find it. I'm really curious as to what they were going to do, and would love to read the script.

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  • Registered: 2010-05-27
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Re: Un-produced Dragonriders of Pern TV series

If i understand your question correctly, you're asking if any Pern books other than the first one is worthy of being read.

The answer is no.

Read these instead.
1  Hyperion
2  Startide Rising
3  Neuromancer
4  America Gods
5  The Fall of Hyperion

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Re: Un-produced Dragonriders of Pern TV series

I think he's asking where he could find the pilot script, if anywhere.

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Re: Un-produced Dragonriders of Pern TV series

Invid wrote:

I'm currently taking another dip into some of my "comfort" books, the first 6 or so Dragonriders of Pern books by Anne McCaffrey. They go down hill once she starts trying to work out a back story and I still haven't made it past All the Weyrs of Pern, but the ones I like I really like (particularly the audio books).

I think that makes it pretty clear that he's read more than the first Pern book.


It looks like the Pern art was on conceptart a few years ago but have been taken down since. One forum post I found said that this link was to the artist's website.
http://www.danmilligan.com/filmandgame/
Apparently the concepts are on this page. Unfortunately, not really knowing Pern I can't be certain which ones they are (think they're the four in the middle of the second to last row)

The script is going to be harder to find I reckon, but Dorkman might be able to help. He miraculously came through with the original Robin Hood script on my request a few months ago so he may work his magic again.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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Re: Un-produced Dragonriders of Pern TV series

Thanks for that link. I honestly thought the pictures would be much harder to find then the script, but the middle of the last row does seem to be Pern art.
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If Dorkman can find the script, or even a treatment, I'll buy a second shirt from your store (the first should be getting here any day).

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