Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle gets TV show from Fargo showrunner

The classic novel is an apocalyptic tale of Earth’s fate

Adapting Kurt Vonnegut is no mean feat, but the challenge is in safe hands with Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley, who will be creating a TV series based on his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle for FX.

If you haven’t read the book, it’s pretty wild (as Vonnegut’s work typically is), here's a blurb:

'Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.'

There aren’t any details on what the show will look like or who it will star yet, but Hawley has done a good a job adapting the Coen brothers’ beloved film Fargo for the network thus far.

Cat’s Cradle is in development at IM Global Television, which also has a sci-fi literary adaptation in the works for Amazon Prime called Darkwater.