'Earth vs Moon' sci-fi war feature film [in development]

[jefferiestubes8]

Zombieland and Venom writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have a film in development by Universal titled "Earth vs Moon"
a huge sci-fi war film

the writers confirm the lead character of the story has been written specifically for Will Smith. They want Smith so bad they have even named the lead character Will.

picked up by Universal Pictures.

Reese and Wernick are currently working on a second draft of the screenplay

to be produced by Scott Stuber (producer of the new Benicio Del Toro-helmed Wolf Man)

the story is described as a space-set epic.

Hmm, would this be more like Starship Troopers, Halo (2012 release), Doom, or Aliens?

Reese explains that it's "set about 300 or 400 years in the future"

Rhett Reese:It’s a science-fiction epic war movie ala, I don’t know, Braveheart or, uh… whatever things can we compare it to. It’s sort of got a little Star Wars in it, a little Braveheart, a little 300 in it.

It’s a colony on the moon. And the colony on the moon is fighting Earth.

It’s like it’s sort of exactly what the title suggests. It’s big and crazy

"It's about two societies at war, but it's also about a family, not at war, but a fractured family. Half of them have gone to the moon and the other half are still on Earth and so they are on opposite sides of this conflict and we wanted to make sure that as big of movie as it's going to be, it works on a small level.

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[Mysterion]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress with the serial numbers scrubbed off.

 

[bigdaddy]

Sounds like a civil war story in space.

Will Smith will most likely say no and the movie will fail apart then.

 

[Broccoli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Cool, but my holy grail continues to be a TV series about a war between Earth and a Mars colony. Cmon, somebody make that!

 

[Harvey]

Did they actually film the pilot to Revolution? And, if so, why hasn't SyFy aired the damned thing yet?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Did they actually film the pilot to Revolution? And, if so, why hasn't SyFy aired the damned thing yet?

Sadly I think that's DOA. And if they picked up Warehouse 13 instead - growf!

 

[Harvey]

Yeah, well, but Warehouse 13...

Okay, I tuned out after catching 20 minutes of the pilot. If I want to watch something fluffy I'll watch some television from the 1980s. Poor Saul Rubinek.

 

[Mistral]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress with the serial numbers scrubbed off.

My first thought. Also, my second and third.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

This looks extremely cheesy. But it could be a good cheesy, not a bad one.

 

[Starbreaker]

Zombieland is intentional cheese... so maybe this will go somewhere if it's way over the top.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Cool, but my holy grail continues to be a TV series about a war between Earth and a Mars colony. Cmon, somebody make that!

You beat me to it! Hell, I want someone to make mini-series of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (one mini-series for each book).

 

[Candlelight]

Cool, but my holy grail continues to be a TV series about a war between Earth and a Mars colony. Cmon, somebody make that!

I actually wrote that but I got bored so I stopped.

 

[Canadave]

Cool, but my holy grail continues to be a TV series about a war between Earth and a Mars colony. Cmon, somebody make that!

You beat me to it! Hell, I want someone to make mini-series of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (one mini-series for each book).

And you beat me to this.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Cool, but my holy grail continues to be a TV series about a war between Earth and a Mars colony. Cmon, somebody make that!

You beat me to it! Hell, I want someone to make mini-series of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (one mini-series for each book).

And you beat me to this.

Great minds think alike.

 

[Saul]

You beat me to it! Hell, I want someone to make mini-series of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (one mini-series for each book).

And you beat me to this.

Great minds think alike.

Ditto!

 

[Canadave]

You beat me to it! Hell, I want someone to make mini-series of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (one mini-series for each book).

And you beat me to this.

Great minds think alike.

Indeed!

I actually just started a re-read of Red Mars. Can't help but imagine what that opening chapter in Nicosia would look like on screen. Between what would be an incredible-looking setting in the city, the rioting and Boone's assassination, it would be a hell of a beginning to a mini-series.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Cool, but my holy grail continues to be a TV series about a war between Earth and a Mars colony. Cmon, somebody make that!

I actually wrote that but I got bored so I stopped.

You must show greater perseverance, young padawan!

Judging from this thread, they need to cross out "Moon" and insert "Mars."