Last week, screenwriter and “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof signed a seven-figure deal with Disney to write “an original large-scale science fiction feature film.” Deadline reported the movie is planned “to play to a family audience,” but was unable to glean any other information from their inside sources, other than a curious working title of 1952.
This is the first film produced from the beginning by Lindelof, who is familiar with secrecy after working under paranoid producer J.J. Abrams. He recently rewrote Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel into an original sci-fi film titled Prometheus and contributed to this summer’s genre mash-up Cowboys & Aliens. Lindelof is currently holed up with Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci to complete Star Trek 2 for Abrams, in hopes of meeting its previously-announced summer 2012 release, then he will begin work on Disney’s large-scale science fiction flick (between jags of defending the “Lost” finale on Twitter, of...
This is the first film produced from the beginning by Lindelof, who is familiar with secrecy after working under paranoid producer J.J. Abrams. He recently rewrote Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel into an original sci-fi film titled Prometheus and contributed to this summer’s genre mash-up Cowboys & Aliens. Lindelof is currently holed up with Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci to complete Star Trek 2 for Abrams, in hopes of meeting its previously-announced summer 2012 release, then he will begin work on Disney’s large-scale science fiction flick (between jags of defending the “Lost” finale on Twitter, of...
- 6/22/2011
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
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