{"id":2329895,"date":"2026-03-15T21:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2329895"},"modified":"2026-03-15T21:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:45:29","slug":"ray-bradbury-once-walked-out-on-a-meeting-with-nbc-i-knew-it-was-hopeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ray-bradbury-once-walked-out-on-a-meeting-with-nbc-i-knew-it-was-hopeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Bradbury Once Walked Out On A Meeting With NBC: &#8216;I Knew It Was Hopeless&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">It&#8217;s no surprise that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0847663\/\">NBC<\/a> wanted a slice of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001969\/\">Ray Bradbury<\/a> 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 &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0360556\/\">Fahrenheit 451<\/a>&#8221; (1953) and the stories found in &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080242\/\">The Martian Chronicles<\/a>&#8221; (1950) and &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064473\/\">The Illustrated Man<\/a>&#8221; (1951) to life. The author even took a meeting with NBC executives before rejecting their proposal altogether.<\/p>\n<p>In the March 1986 edition of Starlog Magazine, Bradbury recalled how he was, as he put it, &#8220;very close to signing a contract for a series,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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 &#8220;Fahrenheit 451&#8221; (1953) and the stories found in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2329896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2329895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ray-Bradbury-Once-Walked-Out-On-A-Meeting-With-NBC.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329897,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329895\/revisions\/2329897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}