So says SCI FI Wire, reporting the news of today’s announcement.
Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from [George] Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is stifling creativity, he commissions an interactive book for his daughter that serves as a guide through a surreal alternate world. Stephenson will adapt his novel for the miniseries, the first time the Hugo and Nebula award winner has written for TV.
Clooney certainly has good taste. I haven’t read as much Stephenson as most of the other people I know, but Diamond Age is an awesome book and definitely suited more for the miniseries treatment than attempting a film.
