Amazon is turning Simon Stålenhag’s haunting retro sci-fi paintings into a TV series

Over the last couple of years, Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag has earned considerable acclaim for Tales from the Loop, a science fiction art book that juxtaposes a sense of nostalgia for the rural countryside against an alternate, futuristic past. Yesterday, Amazon ordered a series based on the book, to be adapted by Legion writer Nathaniel Halpern.Variety reports that the project will be a co-production with Fox 21 Television Studios, which was responsible for such shows as Sons of Anarc