[HMG Celebrity News] – When the two NASA rovers landed on Mars in January 2004 it caused huge public interest. Now Paramount is planning to harness that interest with a movie of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles.

First published in 1950 and set in 1999, the book has rightly become a Sci-Fi classic and has so far been made as a radio play, a comic, a talking book [read by Leonard Nimoy] and an NBC mini-series.

Universal also tried to make a film version in 1997 with Steven Spielberg, but that never came together.

But despite being produced by John Davis, who you’ll recall was in charge of

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