The new live-action TV series adapting the book "The Man Who Fell To Earth" by author Walter Tevis and inspired by director Nicolas Roeg's 1976 feature is being produced for Showtime, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor ("Doctor Strange"):
"...'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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