Javier Gullon will be adapting The Dark Side for Fox and producers Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch, says Heat Vision.
“The Dark Side is set in a future where the moon is used as a penal colony. When an android goes on a murderous rampage, a down on his luck detective is sent in to investigate.”
Fox picked up the book by Anthony O’Neill late last year. The title was only published as an eBook in June.
Gullon is the Spanish screenwriter who previously wrote Enemy, the Denis Villeneuve-directed Jake Gyllenhaal drama, but it’s his 478 script that has Hollywood execs opening their doors for him. That script is an elevated and prestige-minded revenge drama that attracted Arnold Schwarzenegger to star and Darren Aronofsky to produce.
