posted 12-08-2015 10:47 AM               

"Sense8" co-creator J. Michael Straczynski will serve as writer, exec producer and showrunner on "Red Mars." He will exec produce with "Game of Thrones" co-exec producer Vince Gerardis, who first brought the project to Spike, plus David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross of Skydance Television, which is the studio on the series.

Based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy of novels — "Red Mars," "Green Mars" and "Blue Mars" — which chronicle mankind's colonization and transformation of the red planet, the series will follow the first settlers charged with terraforming a mysterious planet, all of whom have competed to be a part of the mission. "Red Mars" will delve into the lives of these relative strangers, cut off from everything they've ever known and living in the harshest environment imaginable. Regarded as the best novels ever written on the subject, Robinson's trilogy has been adapted in 21 languages.