Ray Bradbury Once Walked Out On A Meeting With NBC: ‘I Knew It Was Hopeless’

It’s no surprise that NBC wanted a slice of the Ray Bradbury pie. Television has always been chock-full of literary adaptations, and Bradbury was absurdly prolific when it came to his cultural contributions. The network was interested in bringing tales such as the dystopian science fiction novel “Fahrenheit 451” (1953) and the stories found in “The Martian Chronicles” (1950) and “The Illustrated Man” (1951) to life. The author even took a meeting with NBC executives before rejecting their proposal altogether.

In the March 1986 edition of Starlog Magazine, Bradbury recalled how he was, as he put it, “very close to signing a contract for a series,…