Explanation that they are adapting it as a feature film instead of a limited series because they want to provide more breadth feels disingenuous. Limited series should provide more screentime than a movie.

Also I feel that a tv show would work better - with all the flashbacks you need to have.

This has been in the works for years.

I had high hopes for a limited series. A feature film sounds simply awful for the structured narrative style in Hyperion. Warner Bros will not make a Pasolini style Cantebury Tales. This movie will probably be lifeless.

... Huh. At this point I'm beginning to wonder if they're deliberately choosing the most difficult-to-adapt sci-fi. I can't see this working, at all.