Yes! While it may not be a Star Wars movie (yet), it sounds like director Joe Johnston (of Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, Jumanji, October Sky, JP3, Hidalgo, Wolfman and Captain America: The First Avenger previously) is considering an alien invasion sci-fi project for his next movie. In a very short news story on THR, they say that Johnston is currently in talks to direct a sci-fi project titled Extinction, being produced by David Hoberman & Todd Lieberman of Mandeville (The Fighter, The Muppets, Warm Bodies, 21 & Over). Not many plot details are known right now, but it does involve an alien invasion, but of course. Extinction comes from a script written by Spenser Cohen (Macklemore's Big Surprise, The Driver). The only plot THR gives: "it does involve a man trying to save his family with an alien invasion figuring into the proceedings." The script was on the 2013 Black List...
- 1/8/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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