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12th Man (2012)
Mark Jonathan Stanley, exec producer on the remake of Coma, is writing this story of a man who awakes on a dying space station with only two hours of oxygen left, one escape pod and 11 criminal psychopaths who all want it as much as he does. Now that's a pitch.
American Reaper (2010)
Clint Langley and Pat Mills are to have their graphic novel adapted by Trudie Styler's Xingu Films. The set-up brings new meaning to 'identity theft', involving criminals or dying elderly rich-folk who wipe and re-inhabit the minds of their victims. The 'reapers' of the title are the MiB-style task force assigned to locating these 'possessed' individuals.
Cat's Cradle (2011)
We've talked before at how hard it will be to turn Kurt Vonnegut's tale of global disaster into a meaningful movie, in spite of the wonderful device of 'Ice-9', which is a type of scientifically-engineered ice that freezes at ambient temperatures and pretty much lays waste to the world. Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way seems to be sitting on this for the moment, and perhaps that's just the way things should stay. What the book deserves, Hollywood can't offer - it's a uniquely literary experience, along with most of Vonnegut's output.
Concrete Island (2011)
Having portrayed author J.G. Ballard as a child in Spielberg's Empire Of The Sun, Christian Bale seems set on portraying one of Ballard's characters in this tale of a man whose car-crash maroons him, Crusoe-style, in an island on a motorway. Brad Anderson directs.
Confessions of a Memory Eater (2011)
Since I loved The Machinist so much (though I confess I haven't seen Session 9), it's exciting to see Brad Anderson involved in so many upcoming sci-fi projects here (see Concrete Island and Vanishing On 7th Street). Memory Eater is based on Pagan Kennedy's novel about a drug called Mem which lets you rewind through your favourite memories like TIVO. Reminiscent of Strange Days, it sounds like a very PKD-esque prospect, and that's no bad thing.
Doomsday Protocol (2010)
Shane Salerno, who has graced screen sci-fi with Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and the screenplay for Armageddon (as well as the 2000 remake of Shaft), created and developed this much-guarded screenplay about a group of humans and aliens who join forces to save Earth. It's been described as The Seven Samurai in space, which is pretty much what the Roger Corman-produced Battle Beyond The Stars was in 1980.
Extinction (2012)
Luke Goss continues his concentration on SF/horror in this story about…hell, I don't even know if I can summarise this - here's the official studio line, see what you can make out of it: "Colossus is the top battle fighter for the Red Army and the nephew of General Red, head general of the Red King Army. Using a computerized system and armed with a robotic battle suit, he leaves the Real World and goes into the Third World by way of the Passage World to battle the Death Rebels, outcast robot race. General Red is kidnapped after a massive attack by the robots from the Third World. The Red King Army Council gives Colossus orders to find and rescue the general, but his real MO is to find his kidnapped pregnant wife, Sarah whom also was taken in the attack. Colossus journeys into the unknown to find information on his Uncle's and wife's whereabouts and to rescue them."
Fathom (2011)
Not a remake of the 1967 Raquel Welch vehicle. Megan Fox is set to star in this movie adaptation of the Michael Turner graphic novel about an amnesiac woman who discovers she is from a race of aquatic humanoids and gets trained up by a US/Japan secret coalition to become a warrior. James Cameron (despite a fondness for water) abandoned the project in 2002. It's being written by Prince Of Persia scribe Jordan Mechner. Could anyone ever go broke putting Megan Fox in a bikini?
Firestorm (2011)
This is the first adaptation of the first in the Caretaker trilogy by screenwriter and novelist David Klass, and being developed by Clash Of The Titans and K19 producer Basil Iwanyk. The initial set-up bears some resemblance to A History Of Violence and The Long Kiss Goodnight, in that the central protagonist, a 17-year old, is sought out by unwanted parties when he happens to appear on TV (after winning a football game). Before you know it he's on the run with a telepathic dog (shades of A Boy And His Dog), and finds out that he is from 1000 years in the future and the last and best hope against the 'Dark Army' who have ecologically wrecked the Earth in his own time.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (2011)
Hollywood's determination to film everything Philip K. Dick ever wrote (they could do a lot worse - and they do) continues with this forthcoming adaptation of the 1974 novel about a pop-singer/idol whose ex-girlfriend throws an alien parasite at him; he wakes up the following day apparently having lost all of his fame; no-one knows who he is - not even the police and civic authorities. The book won the 1975 John W. Campbell award, and the adaptation is produced by Terminator Salvation's Derek Anderson.
Heavy Metal (2012)
Part of the reason that this re-tread of the 1981 animated movie is having trouble may lie in the fact that the original wasn't able to participate in the VHS revolution for nearly twenty years due to licensing issues about the music used in the movie. I'm of the opinion that a stronger cult base would have built up if the property hadn't been locked down for so long. The other reason is that project leader David Fincher wants the new Heavy Metal to be an 'R-rated, adult-themed feature', and that's a bit of an obstacle in a marketing-model (CGI films) primarily aimed at younger audiences. The film would feature some of the classically violent and erotic storylines that distinguished the original French/American magazine, and directors Kevin Eastman, Tim Miller, Zack Snyder and Gore Verbinski are set to join Fincher in helming segments. UPDATE: James Cameron is in too - maybe the damn thing will get off the ground now - and be in 3D to boot.
L.E.G.S. (2011)
Certainly one of the more bizarre synopses on the slate, it's kind of a cross between WALL-E and When Harry Met Sally. If you can't be bothered to negotiate the dire layout of the official website, the short version is that two robots on a human-free Earth who parted years earlier, finally see an opportunity to reconnect.
Lensman (2011)
J. Michael Straczynski revived a fair amount of interest in Ron Howard's proposed adaptation of the E.E. 'Doc' Smith SF novels when his involvement as writer was announced early last year. The Lensman series takes place over several million years of conflict between the good Arisians and bad Eddorians, and the eponymous lens is the McGuffin that lends telepathic powers to whoever possesses it. None of this sounds at all cheap.
Maximum Ride (2013)
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke brings us this adaptation from the popular young people's books by James Patterson (whose 'Alex Cross' thrillers Kiss The klix and Along Came A Spider hit the screen as Morgan Freeman movies in 1997 and 2001). The title is the name of the main character, who accompanies 5 other DNA-altered human-avian chums who have flown the lab, hotly pursued by human-wolf hybrids.
Mr. Nobody (2009)
The film that many thought had faded away is actually set for release later this year. Jared Leto stars as the eponymous hero from our time who wakes up in 2092 in a world where no-one dies anymore. Seems a little like Woody Allen's Sleeper (1973).
Naming The Flowers (2010)
Kate Wilhelm's 1992 novel about a government agent who stumbles across a girl with strange powers is being adapted by Daniel Nemet-Nejat for Roadside Pictures.
Natural Magic (2010)
Astral Projection has been a little-used theme in SF and fantasy, with Doctor Strange being the notable exception, though analogous themes have emerged in work like Dreamscape (1984) and The Matrix (1999). Natural Magic posits a situation where the government's interest in 'remote-viewing' - a big issue in the Cold War, when the US and USSR ran a wild goose-chase to create or locate super-telepaths who could spy without leaving home - leads to the main characters being able to actually depart their bodies and go on missions.
Neuromancer (2011)
William Gibson's seminal 80s SF thriller has been green-lit more often than a black cab, and it's anyone's guess as to whether the latest attempt by Joseph Kahn will actually make it to the big screen. Hayden Christensen is attached as the lead. Peter Hoffman, who has a credit as 'presenter' in the not-so-successful 1995 adaptation of Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic, is producing, with a budget currently reported at $70 million. Liv Tyler is also rumoured to be attached. Neuromancer deals with a disgraced hacker who has been physically disabled from interfacing with any computers in the future society he lives in. He's rescued by a mysterious Samurai benefactor who temporarily cures his disability but implants him with Escape From New York-style 'poison sacs' before sending him on a new mission (Gibson has talked about how Neuromancer sprang off from some early lines in John Carpenter's 1980 SF-thriller).
Never Let Me Go (2010)
Based on a novel by Remains Of The Day author Kazuo Ishiguro, this Mark Romanek-helmed production features Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Charlotte Rampling as denizens of a future The Island-style dystopia where humans are cloned to donate their organs. Knightley plays a 'carer' employed to comfort the unwilling donors. This was shooting a month ago in Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex. The source novel came out in 2005, the same year as Michael Bay's clone-harvesting actioner The Island.
Rockfish (2010)
This CGI film is set to have Vin Diesel voice the main character in this odd tale of a man on an alien planet who sets out in pursuit of a giant fish that is disrupting the planet's mining operations. Sounds a bit like someone was cross-reading Dune and Moby Dick. Blur Studios originally produced this as a short CGI feature.
Shell Game (2011)
Underworld chieftain Len Wiseman is directing this future-set thriller which finds a detective investigating black-market immortality. Wiseman commented to Variety: "I've been wanting to make this film for the past five years, but it's a huge film and has always been too expensive to make at the level I've wanted to make it at…Now I'm finally getting a chance to do it at that level." Any other Blade Runner fans getting itchy feet to know more? This movie is not related to the 1954 Philip K. Dick short story. Comic-to-movies stalwarts Benderspink are producing.
Silvaticus 3015 (2010)
Dan O'Bannon described this movie to Den Of Geek as "a big, ambitious space movie with a strong environmental aspect to it…Earth has been destroyed by wanton scientific experiments; the heroes are ex-patriot humans, as it were, trying to find their way in the universe". There hasn't been much heard about it in a year or so. Hawk Sound Studios' Adam Edwards is the originator.
Telepathy (2010)
Miranda Richardson and Sam Neill are slated for director Lesley Manning's story of two identical twins who are separated by Russian scientists, with one sent into space to determine if they are able to communicate with each other. Cillian Murphy's involvement is vacillating, with many sources saying he's not on the project any longer.
The Cross (2010)
This Australian/French/German co-production stars Orlando Bloom as a man in a border-town who attempts to cross the border in question, which no-one else from his community has ever been able to do. Not much more is known about the plot, but director Andrew Niccol has a firm credentials in the form of Gattaca, Lord Of War and S1m0ne. Bloom is joined by Olga Kurylenko, Vincent Cassel and John Goodman. Cassell plays Bloom's nemesis, presumably one of the reasons that the mysterious border is so hard to cross. Lord Of War and 10,000 BC production designer Jean-Vincent Puzos is on board.
The Giver (2011)
Lois Lowry's 1993 SF novel shares a little conceptual DNA with Equilibrium, Brave New World and Logan's Run, presenting us with an apparently utopian and slightly luddite society that may have forgotten the best things about being human. This adaptation by Harry Potter director David Yates has been bumped quite a number of times, we're guessing due to his magical commitments, and some of the sexuality in the book might well not make it to a general-release movie.
The Water Warriors (2011)
Rather taking its thematic cue from a gag in Douglas Adams' The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Silver Fox Films brings us this story of an alien invasion fleet who land on Earth only to find that they have made a massive error in scale, and are barely big enough to be seen by humans. They go on to assume that frogs and such are the dominant species on the planet. This CGI-animated film will be voiced by Patrick Stewart, Stephen Fry and Miriam Margolyes, amongst others.
Vanishing On 7th Street (2010)
The Hollywood apocalypse-obsession continues. With a set-up not immediately dissimilar to the 1985 New Zealand thriller The Quiet Earth, Machinist director Brad Anderson takes on the tale of a group of people who survive a 'black out' that seems to have removed most of the population. But the force that wiped the Earth clean is still determined to clean up the job. John Leguizamo and Thandie Newton star.
Waste of Space (2009)
Cinelight Studios sure are tempting fate with the title of this. Waste Of Space deals with the crew of The Cosmic Cruiser, an understaffed rock-collecting starship with an alcoholic captain and an engineer surnamed Montgomery. We're guessing this is not an entirely serious work and that the ship is understaffed because the film is under-budgeted. Anyway you can find out for yourself at the Fantaspoa Film Festival in mid-July. Thereafter, on DVD, I'm guessing.
Zero Theorem (2010)
Terry Gilliam has reportedly started shooting this tale of reclusive genius Qohen Leth, played by Billy Bob Thornton, who seeks to find the answers to the most fundamental problems of existence. Reports on the script are that it's very literate, to the point where some have expressed surprise that it got the green light. But you know how things can go with Gilliam, the 'Job' of Hollywood (and I'm not talking about Arrested Development - though that term applies to many Gilliam projects). I'm a huge fan of Thornton and Gilliam, and this has got to be one of the most interesting projects on the list.
Zoo (2011)
Not much is known about this project from Spiderwick Chronicles and Elf writer David Berenbaum, except that it's sci-fi and it's called Zoo. Therefore we're not expecting zebras and giraffes. Videodrome remake writer and producer Ehren Kruger is on board as producer. Kruger's other screenwriting credits include Arlington Road, Scream 3, The Ring and Blood And Chocolate.
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