The series was also screened at the 3rd annual Bent-Con convention in Burbank, California, on 2 December 2012. The full series was played over two nights at the 16th Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, on 18 and 19 October 2011, where it won an audience award. The first public screening of Outland took place at the science fiction convention Continuum 7, where brief clips of episodes 1 and 4 were shown on 12 June 2011. It is based on the 2006 short film of the same name. The six-part comedy series was written by John Richards (episodes 1–6) and Adam Richard (episodes 1–3). Here’s hoping that Warner Brothers can pull this one off and give us a cyberpunk film series that can top that last ‘Tron’ film.Outland is an Australian television comedy series which screened in 2012 on ABC1. You may remember Scott III’s name since he’s the same scriptwriter that is adapting Isaac Asimov’s ‘Caves of Steel’ for the big screen.Īs an old school fan of cyberpunk and an avid player of ‘Shadowrun’ (a role-playing game that seems to have many similarities to the ‘Otherland’ series) back in the day, I love story ideas like this one. The first film will be produced by Dan Lin (‘Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows’) and written by John Scott III. Warner Brothers is already planning the ‘Otherland’ novels as a series of films. As Renie begins pulling strings, a vast tapestry of virtual (and real) conspiracies emerge. Now it’s up to Irene “Renie” Sulaweyo, a virtual engineering instructor, to discover the meaning behind the children’s illnesses. Children, who have been plugged into The Net, begin popping up comatose. But The Net may not be all that it seems. With such a playground at people’s disposal, it’s easy to see why everyone would plug in every day. The Net is sort of like the world of ‘The Matrix’ except that anything can happen. The first book revolves around a world where normal people are able to plug themselves into a massive virtual reality simulation known as “The Net”. The series has since grown into a tetralogy of books spanning Williams’ immense futuristic world. The ‘Otherland’ series began in 1996 with the first book, ‘City of Golden Shadow’. WB just acquired the rights to Tad Williams’ cyberpunk ‘Otherland’ novel series. Walt Disney’s ‘Tron Legacy’ might not have been the virtual reality masterpiece that it tried to be, but that’s not stopping Warner Brothers from stepping up to the plate with their own cyberpunk VR film.
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