Karl is still grieving the loss of his beloved daughter Skye (Bronte Carmichael), and dealing with an at-home wife who’s literally erasing their deceased child-and her husband-from her brain, Eternal Sunshine-style. Agatha Matheson (Gretchen Mol) is tasked with treating Thale while simultaneously collaborating with Karl, her former boyfriend. Thale’s presence, which is opposed by the Nightflyer’s security force, is just the most overt complication facing Karl and his comrades on their mission. As if trying to rendezvous with an unknown species isn’t risky enough, Karl has also brought along for the ride Thale (Sam Strike), a telepath whose deadly powers (he’s classified as an “L1” because of prior homicides) may be humanity’s only chance for successfully communicating with the Volcryn. Karl D’Branin (Eoin Macken) believes possess an advanced energy source that might help save our dying planet Earth.

There, it hopes to locate an alien race known as the Volcryn, who Dr. Following a nerve-racking prologue in which a battle to the death ends in creepily unexpected fashion, Nightflyers picks up in 2093 aboard the Nightflyer, a giant craft headed into the Void. 2 on Syfy (with all 10 episodes becoming available across the network’s assorted platforms in the coming two weeks), showrunner Jeff Buhler’s take on Martin’s tale involves expanding it considerably, although the novella’s basic nuts and bolts remain. Think of it as a kindred spirit to Alien and Event Horizon, with a dash of Cronenberg and the Wachowskis thrown into the mix-albeit quite a bit crazier than those illustrious genre brethren. the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones), and previously adapted into a lousy 1987 feature film by director Robert Collector, it’s a haunted house story set aboard an intergalactic spaceship that, in an attempt to make contact with extraterrestrial life, heads out into the vast unknown, where chaos and madness await. Martin, but those looking for dragons, dwarfs or swords-and-sorcery adventure will have to search elsewhere.Ī far cry from the author’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels (i.e.

Nightflyers is based on a 1980 novella by George R.R.

Nightflyers by George R.R. Martin