Eight scientists. Aboard a possessed ship.

Syfy is celebrating its 25th anniversary this coming September, and they’re looking to upgrade their programming in a big way. In the network’s own words, they’re going to be “doubling down on premium original programming,” and one of the first orders of business is a television series based on “Game of Thrones” writer George R.R. Martin’s supernatural novella “Nightflyers”!

The novella, published in 1980, was turned into the same-named filmed back in 1987, and the Syfy series is being developed with executive producers Gene Klein (“Suits”), David Bartis (Mr. and Mrs. Smith), and Doug Liman (“Suits”) of Hypnotic; Alison Rosenzweig (Jacob’s Ladder) and Michael Gaeta (Jacob’s Ladder) of Gaeta Rosenzweig Films; Lloyd Ivan Miller and Alice P. Neuhauser of Lloyd Ivan Miller Productions; and Jeff Buhler (The Midnight Meat Train), who will write the adaptation. Robert Jaffe, who produced the 1987 film, will produce.

In “Nightflyers”…

Set in the future on the eve of Earth’s destruction, a crew of explorers journey on the most advanced ship in the galaxy, The Nightflyer, to intercept a mysterious alien spacecraft that might hold the key to their survival. As the crew members near their destination, they discover that the ship’s artificial intelligence and never-seen captain may be steering them into deadly and unspeakable horrors deep in the dark reaches of space.

Check out the ’87 film’s trailer below!