The beguiling face and uncovered figure of Mathilda May convinced many young men to see Lifeforce when it came out in 1985, and the film has enjoyed a healthy posttheatrical popularity in various home video editions, including a recent Blu-ray release. Now it may be available to watch in a small-screen edition every week.

Ringleader Studios has acquired the rights to adapt Colin Wilson's novel The Space Vampires for television, according to Deadline. Wilson's novel served as the basis for the film version, written for the screen by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, and directed by Tobe Hooper. Steve Railsback stars as an astronaut, part of a mission that discovers an alien spacecraft. On board the spacecraft, Mathilda May is the star attraction, a beautiful (and naked) alien in suspended animation. When she is brought down to Earth and revives, however, her space-vampire nature is revealed in all its bloodthirsty, lifeforce-sucking glory.

The plan is to create "a small-screen episodic series, also titled Lifeforce, as well as a graphic novel, video game and additional media tie-ins." First published in 1956, The Space Vampires is only 120 pages in length, but the idea is so compelling that it obviously lends itself to adaptation into various media. We just wonder what took so long. The movie version, which also features Patrick Stewart, Peter Firth and Frank Finlay, is brimming with entertainment value and is a clever update on vampire tropes that lends itself to discovery for new horror fans. We can't wait to see more.