'TRIFFIDS' MINI-SERIES IN THE WORKS

I like plant horror -- there's something about sentient and malign greenery that amps up the creep factor. Of course, one of the scariest is the DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (1963), in which the deadly plants are animated after a meteor shower that also blinds nearly everybody on Earth. 

Written by visionary British science-fiction author John Wyndham and published in 1951, it has been adapted for radio, film, TV and even the comics (see HERE). Although it can be seen in its entirety on YouTube, oddly, no well-known video distributor has issued a Region 1 copy of this absorbing film.

News dropped just a few days ago that Amazon is working on a Triffid miniseries. This just might be interesting . . .

From Bloody-disgusting.com:

Written by John Wyndham, the 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids has been adapted multiple times over the years, and The Wrap reports today that Amazon Studios is behind the latest adaptation. Amazon has acquired the rights to the novel, we’ve learned today.

The Wrap reminds, “The Day of the Triffids tells the story of an alien invasion of Earth by a cloud of seeds that sprout sentient plants. A large portion of the population, meanwhile, has been blinded by a meteor shower in preparation for the invasion.”

The website also reports, “Amazon Television is developing the property as a series of miniseries, detailing the invasion from multiple points of view in multiple cities. The project comes from Matt King’s division at Amazon Television, which is tasked with finding franchises and other IP that Amazon can use to build worlds from.”

Johan Renck (“Chernobyl”) is attached to direct. Don Murphy and Susan Montford will executive produce along with Preger Entertainment’s Jillian and Dennis DeFrehn.

The original story has been made into the 1962 feature film of the same name, three radio drama series (in 1957, 1968 and 2001) and two TV series (in 1981 and 2009).

Here's the trailer for the original film: