Syfy Films options 'Wild Cards'

Syfy Films, the cable channels movie production arm, has optioned "Bet on Thrones" novelist George R. R. Martin's number of super hero books, "Wild Cards," to become compiled by Melinda Snodgrass. Snodgrass and Martin are generally one of the authors around the two-dozen-plus books, that are composed by a multitude of SF scribes such as the late Roger Zelazny and longtime "X-Males" comicbook scribe Chris Claremont. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com