It appears Hollywood isn’t ready to give up on the post-apocalyptic/dystopic genre just quite yet. Mind you that Jericho and Sarah Connor Chronicles both bit it after two seasons, and the new series, ‘Revolution’, looks like it might not break that streak. So, let’s shift the apocalypse from a nuclear war to a global pandemic and we get this:
Michael bay, of Transformers fame, is set to direct a TNT pilot of “The Last Ship”.
I read the book, The Last Ship, a few years back and thought it was about average for a post-apocalyptic novel. The short version: after a nuclear war, the crew of a Navy destroyer are left wandering the seas in search of a habitable home. Over time they deal with mutiny, food shortages, radiation, other surviviors, and their own new society.
It wasn’t a bad book, just nothing really groundbreaking. Good entertainment though and I would recommend it as an entertaining read. Those with naval experience will probably get more out of it. The potential, certainly, is there for a series if they can make it stick. Right now it looks like The Walking Dead is setting the television record for longevity of a post-apocalyptic series as it shambles into it’s third season.
If you include post-alien-invaison, then there is also Falling Skies on TNT.
I dunno – I like aftermath fiction and just couldn’t get dug into The Last Ship, try though I might. Gave it up twice, which is rare for me regarding a book….
Sounds like a sea based version of Battlestar Galactica.
Sounds a lot like “On the Beach”, which was also the last post nuke society on earth in Auzzie land. Radiation was quickly headed their way so a sub was sent to the US to see if it was habitable. Decent enough movie which I got by torrent.