Mr. Edwards, describing the project as "an epic human story set in a futuristic world without humanity," said it would "be way more ambitious, with more resources, but not so crazy that we can't get the approach we want".
This time the town is the backdrop to an epic human tragedy, not a charnel house for doomed souls.
And finally I predict that Peter Dickinson's epic human origins story The Kin will be rediscovered and hailed as the classic it is.
Members of the US House and Senate don't dream wistfully of space exploration or epic human achievement, of clinging on to an asteroid or visiting Mars.
The devastating emotional impact of the Salaspils memorial -- the way it communicates both the lonely human tragedies and epic scale of what happened on this befouled meadow -- haunted me for many years afterward.
He presented this history not as the inevitable working out of vast and impersonal forces, but as an epic human conflict in which his own sympathies were fully invested, and fully visible.
An outsider even in his native land, Mr. Minghella took on large historical issues in his work, like the human consequences of epic warfare in "Cold Mountain," about a soldier's journey across an American landscape battered by the Civil War.
Rather, he said, the classically steeped work of Michelangelo, with its ideal human forms and epic scenes, may seem less germane to modern eyes than the work of the bohemian Caravaggio, whose off-of-the-street models and authentic subjects challenged Renaissance painting.
When Ben Elton and I decided to write Blackadder Goes Forth, a sitcom full of stupid jokes about the first world war, we knew it was quite an odd thing to do – to try to be funny about an epic human tragedy.
It is as if she is searching in vain for a bygone place and time made of equal parts persistent human enterprise and epic human tragedy.
