Paramount has optioned Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles," TheWrap has confirmed.
John Davis is producing.
"The Martian Chronicles" is a short-story collection published in 1950. It's about 
humans fleeing earth, which has been all but destroyed, for Mars. Humans attempt to colonize the Red Planet.
Universal had owned rights to the book, but the company's option, which it acquired in 1997, have expired.
Davis has two projects — "Chronicle" and "Protection" — in preproduction at Twentieth Century Fox and a third project, "Mr. Popper's Penguins" in postproduction at the studio. His "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." is in preproduction at Warner Bros.
"The Martian Chronicles" was a 3-episode NBC and BBC miniseries in 1980. Rock Hudson starred.
The stories span the "future" — 1999 to 2057. The first of the stories was published in 1947. The anthology as a whole was published in 1950.
Bradbury is 90.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news.
