After Dune, Denis Villeneuve Will Rendezvous With Rama

First up, Denis Villeneuve wants to finish Dune. That’s subsequent on the director’s to-do checklist. After that although, he’s simply signed on to helm one other sci-fi traditional from an absolute legend, Arthur C. Clarke. Villeneuve will direct Rendezvous with Rama, based mostly on Clarke’s award-successful 1973 novel.

“This is one of the most intelligent works of fiction in the genre; it poses as many questions as it does answers, and is a work for our time,” Alcon co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosov mentioned in a press launch. “It’s perfectly fitted to our friend and collaborator Denis’ brilliant sensibilities and specifically to his love and passion for science fiction. We are also pleased to work with Morgan [Freeman] and Lori [McCreery] who have a long-standing passion for this IP.” Freeman (sure, that one) and McCreery run Revelations Entertainment, which owned the venture’s movie rights earlier than Alcon took them over.

Now, even if you happen to didn’t know Villeneuve was going to direct, Rendezvous with Rama feels like one thing he’s completely fitted to. It’s the story of Earth detecting an alien spaceship coming into our photo voltaic system, and the mission humanity mounts to go meet it. Knowing simply that, you would possibly say it feels like a narrative with the epic, international scope of a Dune combined with the marvel and humanity of Arrival. So who higher than the person who directed these motion pictures to make this new movie?

Freeman and his firm have owned the rights to Rendezvous with Rama for a number of years now, with Fight Club director David Fincher lengthy hooked up to direct. At the time, although, they have been unable to get a workable script or financing. Alcon has now stepped in to make it with Villeneuve, a director it made one other adaptation of a legendary sci-fi writer’s work with: Blade Runner 2049, based mostly on the work of Philip Okay. Dick.

There’s no phrase on when all of this is able to be set in movement however with Dune: Part Two scheduled for launch in 2023, one would think about no less than two years after that may be the earliest we’d see it.

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