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Will Philip Jose Farmer’s Dayworld Series Be Adapted for the Big or Small Screen?

I watched the 2003 adaptation of the Riverworld series on SyFy over the weekend, and all it made me wonder is why they haven’t yet made Dayworld into a movie or TV show. SyFy is releasing a new adaptation of Riverworld next year, so I think it is time for some of Philip Jose Farmer’s other works to be adapted.

I tried to read the Riverworld series while I was in high school, but I never found it as compelling as Dayworld, Dayworld Rebel, and Dayworld Breakup.

The trilogy focuses on a future in which over-population has driven the government to restrict all people to live only one day per week. The rest of the time, they are in coldsleep. They share homes with families who live in the other six days of the week, but all people live completely separate lives.

A group of Daybreakers resist the law and live more than one day per week, keeping separate families, jobs, and social lives on each day.

The series explores the role of government in our personal lives, the problems of over-population, and the inner workings of resistance movements as one of the Daybreakers runs afoul of both the government and the anti-government movement he is a part of.

I think this could make a good miniseries or even a feature film. I don’t remember how dense the books are, so I can’t say whether it should be condensed into one film or done as a series a la Lord of the Rings. But I know it could be good. Done right, it could even be a cable series.

What books would you like to see adapted?