The label “visionary director” is slapped on so many hot young helmers that it’s become a pointless marketing tool, but if anyone deserves that title, it would be the seriously brilliant director of The Crow and Dark City, Alex Proyas. FirstShowing.net reports Proyas is interested in producing the still-in-progress sci-fi novel AMP by Robopocalypse (A Steven Spielberg project) author Daniel H. Wilson.
Proyas is currently slated to direct Paradise Lost and Dracula Year Zero (with Sam Worthington as the Count) but has landed a deal with Summit to produce – and maybe direct – Wilson’s novel, which won’t be released until June 2011. The novel is reportedly set in a future society where technology designed to heal disabled people ends up turning them into supermen. Sounds fun. No clues yet about what the title might stand for (if indeed it’s an acronym), but as Wilson completes the book, a screenwriter will be hired to work the pages into an initial script draft.
Alex Proyas’s last film was the poorly-reviewed Knowing, with Nicolas Cage. I loved that movie, and still can’t understand why everyone hated it so much. I’m looking forward to another dystopian sci-fi flick from Proyas, whose Dark City remains one of the best and most under-rated sci-fi films in recent memory.
Are you a Proyas follower and sci-fi fan? What do you think of the premise behind AMP?