‘Repent Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman Is Becoming a Film
Will the biting, acerbic author and television critic regret this later? Wait for the explosion…
One of the most influential and beloved short stories penned by the great Harlan Ellison is coming to the
smallbig screen, via Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski. But cantelevisionStraczynski do it justice?The beautiful and complex story, “‘Repent Harlequin!’ Said The Ticktockman” is set in a dystopian future where time is a highly regulated. Being late is a serious crime. If you abuse your time the Ticktockman will find you, “turn you off,” and you die. The short story itself starts in the middle and leaps from the beginning and end throughout the plot. It’s really a wonderful bit of work that has been widely praised as an astounding work of science fiction. And now, Straczynski has acquired the rights to this story from Ellison.
Harlan Ellison’s Television criticism at Amazon:
