Tomorrow Of The Triffids

John Wyndham's infamous carnivorous plants are set to return.

The world is a ruined wasteland. Everywhere there are shuffling humans, desperate to eke out an existence in a world gone terribly wrong. This time though, the villain isn't zombies - it's plants.

Back in 1951, John Wyndham wrote "The Day of The Triffids", a story that holds some relevance today, in which a corporation is approached by a man with a remarkable new oil.

This plant oil derived from a genetically modified crop is better than anything they've ever seen. Sensing a total monetary collapse, the corporation decide that his plane will never get home. The man and his seeds are soon 'dispatched' to the great garden in the sky, but some seeds fall to Earth.

The strange plants start to grow across the world. But then, bright lights appear in the sky, and people start to watch. And then one star burns brightly, brightly enough to burn out optic nerves. The next morning, almost the entire world is blind...and humanity crumbles. From the detritus of civilisation, the man-eaters grow and start to harvest the human race.

This could easily be the start to 28 Days Later, Left4Dead,I Am Legend or Resident Evil; most modern disaster films owe a great debt to "Triffids," one of the original 'apocalypse' novels. With apocalyptic films and games raging through the media, the BBC figured there was no better time to bring back the original bad guys. The adaptation is scheduled to begin filming soon.

One hopes that the BBC will also look into Wyndham's other works, including The Chyrsalids, about genetic mutation and religious persecution, and The Kraken Wakes, which chronicles a world terrified by rising sea levels.

Source : BBC News

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Never read Day of the Triffids but The Chyrsalids is probably one of my all time favorite reads. I should get around to that, Wyndham is an awesome writer.

Wait the bbc are doing what?

Oh thank goodness. After seeing a trailer for the new The Day the Earth Stood Still I had a horrid forboding another classic was about to be tortured & mutilated by Hollywood

Great news.

I have fond, frightened memoires of watching the 80's TV series of 'Day of The Triffids' when I was younger, and I also enjoyed the 1962 film.

I think the BBC does a great job of re-making classic Sci-Fi series.

I'm enjoying the new 'Survivors' and loved the modern adaptations of 'The Quatermass Experiment' and 'A for Andromeda', so I think this latest re-make should be good too.

Cousin_IT:
Oh thank goodness. After seeing a trailer for the new The Day the Earth Stood Still I had a horrid forboding another classic was about to be tortured & mutilated by Hollywood

Ugh, I had that foreboding too. I saw that trailer, and asked the person next to me "Is it just me, or do they seem to be turning a movie about pacifism and the need for humans to become more understanding into an alien invasion movie?" The aforementioned person could only say, in a choked voice, "I...Don't know."

Unlike Hollywood though, the BBC generally does a rather good job with their older stuff. I'm rather looking forward to this.

This is pretty sweet but what does it have to do with games? Are they making a game of the movie or something?

Man, I love this; a good read for a sci-fi fan.

Fire Daemon:
This is pretty sweet but what does it have to do with games? Are they making a game of the movie or something?

Well, apart from not all the news having to do with games, young Padawan; "Day of the Triffids" is one of the great grandparents as Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead. The 'Smoker' could easily be a Triffid, especially the muted calls of a killer on the warpath.

Take a quick look and see if this wouldn't be out of place as a game intro : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0HLGkgM5U50

The_root_of_all_evil:

Fire Daemon:
This is pretty sweet but what does it have to do with games? Are they making a game of the movie or something?

Well, apart from not all the news having to do with games, young Padawan; "Day of the Triffids" is one of the great grandparents as Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead. The 'Smoker' could easily be a Triffid, especially the muted calls of a killer on the warpath.

Take a quick look and see if this wouldn't be out of place as a game intro : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0HLGkgM5U50

Don't get me wrong here. I read day of the Triffids about four years ago and loved it. I then went and got the show on DvD and loved those as well. I'm well aware of how day of the Triffids has helped shape (or even create) the post-apocalyptic genre.

I was just confused why this was put in the news section and kind of hopped that a game was coming from this.

Fire Daemon:

I was just confused why this was put in the news section and kind of hopped that a game was coming from this.

The News covers all sort of things of interests to Gaming Geeks. But yeah, perhaps I'm just pushing for someone to do a long overdue game of "DotT". There is a card game, (seriously) but a stealth game like Thief would be awesome cubed.

Here's the 1962 movie, which was my introduction to the triffids via Saturday night indie channel horror movie blocks. Love the notion of a game like this; kingdom of the blind is a classic isolation tale.