Syfy proved that it hasn’t entirely abandoned spacefaring series outright when the network announced that it would be adapting James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse novels into an ongoing TV series. The Expanse trilogy opens with 2011’s Leviathan Wakes and follows intertwining narratives as a grim detective and a reluctant ship captain cross paths in the midst of a conflict between Earth, Mars, and colonized asteroids. Today the network revealed that Thomas Jane (Hung) has nabbed the lead role of the detective, Joe Miller.
The Expanse is going straight to series with a 10 episode premiere season to be written and produced by Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus (Iron Man, Children of Men).
