Streaming service CBS All Access, soon to be rebranded as 'Paramount +' continues to develop a live-action, dramatic TV series adapting StudioCanal's "The Man Who Fell To Earth", by author Walter Tevis and director Nicolas Roeg's 1976 feature (that starred David Bowie), to be co-produced by CBS Television Studios and Tandem Productions:
"...'The Man Who Fell To Earth' TV series will follow an extra-terrestial male alien who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.
"He poses as the human 'Thomas Jerome Newton' to save his dying planet, but a woman and the exploitive greed of other men create unforseen, cloudy complications..."
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