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    FX Adapting Sci-Fi Novel "Redshirts" As Limited Series
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    John Scalzi's 2012 comedic sci-fi novel "Redshirts" is 
    headed to the small screen. FX has teamed with veteran
    feature producer Jon Shestack ("Dan In Real Life") and 
    producer-director Ken Kwapis ("Sisterhood Of The 
    Traveling Pants") and his partner Alexandra Beattie
    to develop a limited series based on the book, which 
    won the 2013 Hugo Award. Search is underway for writers
    to pen the adaption, with Kwapis set to direct the
    opening episode. He, Shestack and Beattie executive
    produce.

    Set in the 25th century, "Redshirts" follows the 
    adventures of five new recruits on the Starship Intrepid
    who come to realize that the ship's crewmembers are 
    dying at an alarming rate. Their investigation leads to
    the mind-bending discovery that a science fiction 
    television show, produced in the early 21st century, has
    somehow 'intruded' upon their reality and 'warped' it. 
    In other words, the lives of the crew are following the
    course of a television narrative over which they have 
    no control. "'Redshirts' is a madcap, hyper-meta tale,"
    Shestack said. Added Kwapis, "If Jorge Luis Borges had 
    been a staff writer on the original 'Star Trek', he 
    would no doubt have concocted a story like 'Redshirts'."
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