Fresh off A Quiet Place, which he both starred in and directed, John Krasinski has found himself in the position of being one of the hottest filmmakers in Hollywood, and we’ve just learned that his next will see him re-team with Paramount and Platinum Dunes. It’s a sci-film, keeping Krasinski in the genre arena, and it’s titled Life on Mars.
The site notes, “There is no writer on board and Krasinski, at this stage, is not expected to star. He will also be a producer on the project, alongside Allyson Seeger, an executive at his Sunday Night Productions banner.”
“The project will adapt a short story by Cecil Castellucci titled We Have Always Lived on Mars that centers on a woman who is among a handful of descendants of a Martian colony long-abandoned by Earth following a cataclysm. The woman one day finds she can breathe the air on Mars, upending her world and that of her fellow colonists.”
THR reports that Dunes’ Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce the film, with Paramount in negotiations to pick it up for distribution.