I don't have much to report now that the original research is over, although I spoke with Jason and he gave me a big list of work on selling scripts to companies and getting them produced in the real world that I'm going to shuffle through in the next couple weeks as I hammer out the actual script. I've reread the whole book now, and written out a full shorthand treatment of every scene in it, which I've used to cut the whole thing into four episodes. Taking some of what I've learned, I've already planned to throw a couple characters and a C-plot out of the narrative entirely, but my current adaptational philosophy is that I'm only chopping out the things that a fan wouldn't really miss.
The story itself divides pretty nicely between the four either way, especially when I've reordered a B-plot to play out alongside the main events. I never appreciated how good Peter Watts was at cliffhangers and high tension until I had to sit in his chair and poke at his creations so closely. I think this will do well with the main character as a narrator, too, and I'm hoping to preserve a few of my favorite passages in the book because the dialogue and prose are wonderful.
Here are some of my favorite sections from
the online version:
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