Gattaca and Lord of War director/writer Andrew Niccol has found his new project, THR reports. Titled I’m Mortal, it “is set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality.”
No cast has been set yet but “the protagonist is a poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as time keepers.” Due to the story all the actors will be younger, “adults such as parents appear to be the same age as their kids.”
The script is compared to District 9 and Children of Men, falling into social sci-fi, “a genre that uses one big idea to reflect on societal issues.” I love Niccol’s work, especially on The Truman Show and Gattaca. This sounds like another great project. He is also attached to The Cross starring Orlando Bloom, but according to IMDb it was simply “canceled”. He is also attached to direct Stephenie Myer‘s The Host but nothing has been confirmed.
I’m Mortal is currently looking through a “deep pool” of candidates for a summer production start in LA.
Do you like Andrew Niccol? Are you happy more sci-fi is hitting the mainstream?