Renowned Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris (“The Thin Blue Line,” “Standard Operating Procedure”) is set to take on his second-ever narrative feature (the first was “The Dark Wind” in 1991) inspired by the Robert F. Nelson memoir “We Froze The First Man” and a story on NPR’s “This American Life” titled “You’re As Cold As Ice.”
According to Variety, the dark comedy is being scribed by Zach Helm and will follow Nelson in the 1960’s as he joined a group of fellow enthusiasts who believed they could cheat death through cryonics.
Helm’s previous writing efforts include “Stranger Than Fiction” and “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium,” with the latter also marking his directorial debut. Morris’ last effort, meanwhile, was 2008’s “Standard Operating Procedure,” a documentary that explored the Abu Ghraib prison photography scandal that plagued U.S. soldiers, but pretty much every documentary he has helmed is par excellence.
The cryonics project is currently known simply as the “Untitled Cryonics Project” and is being backed by Mandate Pictures and Film Rites.
