FX and “Fargo” showrunner Noah Hawley are working on a limited series based on Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 book “Cat’s Cradle”, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Cat’s Cradle is considered one of Vonnegut’s finest works.
There aren’t any details on what the show will look like or who it will star yet, but Hawley has done a good a job adapting the Coen brothers’ beloved film Fargo for the network thus far. Hawley is also attached to write and executive produce an adaptation of the Marvel comic Legion. Hawley will write and executive produce the Cat’s Cradle TV series as part of his two-year overall deal with FX.
This will be Hawley’s third collaboration with FX where the Peabody, Golden Globe, Emmy, and a whole bunch of other awards-winning Fargo is now airing its second season. Through John and his interactions withe the Hoenikker family, Vonnegut explores religion, science, war, technology and the folly of the human condition with his trademark irony and satire.
The Vonnegut classic centers around a man named John and his trip to San Lorenzo, a unusual island with an even stranger religion called Bokononism.
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Fans of Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five) rejoice! At that point nearly nothing was known about the project other than the fact that it would indeed use Cat’s Cradle as its source material, which is implicit in a TV show labeled as Cat’s Cradle adaptation. And while the idea of anyone else on the planet having the audacity to “supplement” Vonnegut’s original work makes me furious, I actually trust Hawley to enhance the book while staying true to it-and that’s what’s really important.
