AMC Looks Set to Unleash ‘The Terror’

What with The Walking Dead dominating the cable ratings, it makes sense that AMC is looking for more genre-oriented content. Next up for AMC is an adaptation of Dan Simmons’ best selling novel The Terror.

According to Deadline, AMC has put an adaptation of the novel into development for an upcoming TV series. The project is being produced by Ridley Scott’s shingle Scott Free TV, as well as Television 360 and feature producer Alexandra Milchan.

The series is being written by David Kajganich, who is also adaptating another novel, Stephen King’s The Stand for Warner Brothers.

“The Terror is set in 1847 when the crew of a Royal Naval expedition to find the Arctic’s treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator – a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival, the consequences of which could endanger the region and its native people forever.”

So what do you guys think? Does this one sound as if it has potential?