Some how the name Timur Bekmambetov has become a go-to in Hollywood for big blockbuster productions, yet he hasn’t turned up anything worthwhile since he step foot stateside. His US debut Wanted was silly (and I mean silly) passing fun, but his producing projects such as Apollo 18, 9 and The Darkest Hour have all crashed and burned. So it comes with much hesitation to announced the next one he’ll have his hand in.
Variety reports his company has snatched up rights to Stephen Tunney‘s One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy, a young adult sci-fi novel that will be adapted by Edward Ricourt, whose Now You See Me actually goes into production today with Louis Leterrier directing. The film has an expansive world and follows a boy who can see the future path of time and matter. The concept sounds neat, but knowing the producer, it’ll be attempted with a modest budget. If someone like James Cameron has unlimited control to create the world, I’d be there day one. For now, I’ll keep my eyes peeled from a distance.
Book Synopsis:
Two thousand years in the future, the Moon has become a run-down experiment in terraforming and colonization with a dusty patina and a bright red sky. To sixteen-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin, it is the only world he has ever known until he meets a girl from Earth called Windows Falling on Sparrows, who is inexplicably drawn to him because of his special–some say dangerous–condition. Hieronymus is a One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy who can see the fourth primary color, which gives him the ability to see the future path of time and matter. To look into his eyes will cause madness or even death, authorities say, so he is forced to wear goggles at all times. The color of his eyes is against Lunar law, and some say against nature. After breaking the Moon s most serious law and exposing his eyes to the curious young Earth girl, Hieronymus embarks on a tremendous misadventure to protect his friends and save his family, and to escape exile and imprisonment on the far side of the moon.
Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter hits theaters this summer via 20th Century Fox.
What do you think about Bekmambetov’s impact in Hollywood? Has he made anything you’ve liked? What do you think about this latest proejct?