Yahoo News HG Wells' The Time Machine to become Sky TV series
Sci-fi fans are in for a treat, as Sky is taking another crack at time travel with a big-budget adaptation of HG Wells' The Time Machine.
Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell's House Productions are behind the new project, with BBC Worldwide also on board.
According to Deadline, the TV series is in the "very early stages of development", but the drama would likely air on the broadcaster's Sky Atlantic channel alongside hit shows like Game of Thrones and Tin Star.
The Time Machine, by acclaimed British author HG Wells, was first published in 1895 and tells the story of an English scientist living in Victorian England.
[Guy Pearce in a previous version of The Time Machine]
Obsessed with time travel, the scientist believes time is simply a fourth dimension and goes to great lengths to prove it to his dinner guests.
HG Wells is most famous for writing classic novels The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - the latter was made into a Hollywood movie starring Tom Cruise in 2005.
This isn't the first time Sky has tried to adapt The Time Machine.
Last year, Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio and Episodes producer Hat Trick worked on an adaptation to mark the 150th anniversary of HG Wells' birth.
[Tom Cruise in The War of the Worlds]
Now, they return to the project with Nick Payne - the British playwright behind Toni Collette's BBC drama Wanderlust - and director Kibwe Tavares, who's worked on the BBC's adaptation of Noughts & Crosses.
The Time Machine was last adapted for the big screen in 2002. Wells' great grandson Guy Wells directed the movie, which also starred Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Samantha Mumba and Jeremy Irons.
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