Although HBO producer Adam McKay had never heard of the ''cli-fi'' term until a few months ago -- something he candidly and sheepishly admitted/confessed in a recent podcast -- now he has and he is putting his zest for cli-fi into practice with this TV series.

HBO Is Turning David Wallace-Wells' internationally-famous magazine rant ''The Uninhabitable Earth'' Into a Cli-Fi Streaming Screaming TV Series with Cli-Fi Maven Adam McKay @ghostpanther  producing, writing, directing, showrunning, interviewing, casting and PR'ing...

An important cli-fi TV series is coming to you via HBO streaming services department, with David Wallace-Wells’ nonfiction magazine article and book ''The Uninhabitable Earth'' will serving as the template. Although producer Adam McKay had never heard of the cli-fi term until a few months ago -- something he candidly and shyly he admitted/confessed in a recent podcast -- now he has and he is putting his zest for cli-fi into practive with this TV series.
 

The vivid images that  the book painted will now be translated to the small screen with Oscar- and Emmy-award winner Adam McKay (The Big Short) writing and directing the pilot episode which should debut in the spring of 2020, maybe on Earth Day.. The series will be on HBO Max, a new streaming service.

 

 

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Hollywood has become more engaged with the cli-fi genre over the past 15 years, starting with "The Day After Tomorrow," "Tomorrowland," and "Tomorrow Never Comes." As Earther's cli-fi lead writer says: "With climate change making a huge impact on culture, even including how we talk, it makes sense that HBO is diving into how to tell the story of what the future holds if we don’t act.''

 

 

“The plan is for the first season to enlist top directors and writers to join in creating a provocative and entertaining series that taps into our unease with just how delicately our planet is teetering on the precipice,” a statement on the show reads.

Earther's Yessenia Funes (@yessfun) comments: “First season,” eh? Sounds like the creators of the show may give us climate nerds at least a couple of seasons of this, and Earther reached out to HBO for comment on this. We’ll let you know if they clarify the point.

 

Hopefully Adam McKay and his writers room think tank will attempt to ground the climate crisis by putting ''people'' at the center, something that according to Earther wasn’t always clear in DWW's  magazine article and book.