The untitled moon project that Doug Liman (“The Bourne Identity”) has been working on, with Jake Gyllenhaal as an astronaut involved in a lunar colonization, is undergoing yet another re-write. Previously the project was under the pen of Liman and John Hamburg (“I Love You, Man”) before Mark Bowden (the “Black Hawk Down” novel) took a pass at it, and then Dan Mazeau (“Bruno”) followed by the film’s producer Simon Kinberg (“XxX: State Of The Union”). Now, the task has fallen to “Black Hawk Down” script scribe Ken Nolan. Nolan has previously worked on the CIA miniseries “The Company,” but that’s his only other credit. Stay tuned to this space, as we get bored about reporting on a year of re-writes to this project and instead re-imagine it as a western musical in space, a mixture of “Rio Bravo,” “Seven Brides For Seven Brothers” and “The Last Starfighter” with a pinch of “Brokeback Mountain” added in, for versimilitude.
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I’d like Liman to go back to a smaller project like Go but his projects only seem to get bigger and bigger. I can’t believe the same guy who made Swingers made Bourne Identity and Jumper. What an odd career trajectory.
If you’re wondering what is happening here basically Liman has been running around without any direction on this project. Not only the script, but the story itself has changed a few times.
Originally this film was attached to Dreamworks, so many (if not most) of the delays involved all the Dreamworks-Paramount drama during their “divorce.”
But the film is now set up solely with Paramount and apparently they’re very interested in moving forward on this thing. Therefore, THEY were the ones who brought in the new writer to get this thing going.
This news is being reported as another delay, or more trouble (blah, blah, blah), but really what’s happening is that someone is finally taking charge on this project.
This is actually good news. I don’t expect them to start filming in the near future, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they began filming either in the fall or early next year.
Sounds like you’re in the know. interesting.