SF TUESDAY: LE GUIN'S DISPOSSESSED TO BECOME SF TV SERIES! WARNING SF TRAILER WITH ALEX PETTYFER, THOMAS JANE, RUPERT EVERETT, PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER, ALICE EVE! ENCOUNTER SF TRAILER WITH RIZ AHMED, OCTAVIA SPENCER

As Variety reports, 1212 Entertainment and Anonymous Content are set to turn Ursula Le Guin's sf novel THE DISPOSSESSED into sf tv series. It tells

Le Guin's book will become TV series

the story of the twin planets of Anarres and Urras, which remain divided by centuries of fear and distrust. The utopian colony on Anarres has long been isolated from its mother planet Urras, a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. On Anarres, a brilliant physicist has developed a theory that overcomes the limitations of time and distance, altering the understanding of space itself. This theory has the potential to radically change these two worlds and their place in the wider universe, but in order to prove it, he must travel to Urras and attempt to tear down the walls that have kept the two civilizations apart for generations.

Encounter hits Amazon December 10th

In other sf news today, check out the trailer for Octavia Spencer and Riz Ahmed's sf movie ENCOUNTER. Hitting Amazon Prime Video on December 10th (with a limited cinematic release a week before that), it sees Riz playing a decorated Marine who goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind. The film, which premiered at Toronto Film Festival this year, was directed by Michael Pearce and also stars Rory Cochrane. Check out the trailer below:

 

And it really is a stellar ensemble as beside Thomas Jane, Alex Pettyfer and Rupert Everett, WARNING also features Patrick Schwarzenegger,

Warning is out later this month

Alice Eve and Annabelle Wallis. Set in the not too distant future, this intense sci-fi thriller explores the repercussions that humanity faces when omniscient technology becomes a substitute for human contact. But life begins to unravel when a global storm causes electronics to go haywire, leading to terrifying, deadly consequences! The film, directed by Agata Alexander in her directing debut after helming music videos, will hit selected theatres and video on demand October 22nd.