Bryan Singer has spent a lot of time working on the X-Men movies, recently directing last year's Days of Future Past. Now we're getting word on the director's next science fiction film.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bryan Singer will direct a film adaptation of the classic Robert A. Heinlein novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Marc Guggenheim, executive producer of Arrow, will write the screenplay for the film, which will be titled Uprising.
Released in 1966, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is set in 2075 and follows a lunar colony which revolts from Earth. It won the Hugo Award in 1967 for best science fiction novel.
Dreamworks was originally planning to adapt the novel, according to The Wrap. All the way back in 2004 an adaptation was planned, but it never ended up happening. Now we might finally get a chance to see the classic novel on the big screen.
A few other Heinlein books have been adapted on screen before including Red Planet and Starship Troopers, and last year's Predestination with Ethan Hawke was actually based on a Heinlein short story. However, this will be the first film based on a Heinlein novel since Starship Troopers in 1997, and even that was a pretty loose adaptation.
Bryan Singer directed the first two movies in the original X-Men trilogy and then returned to direct X-Men: Days of Future Past. He has also directed Jack the Giant Slayer, Superman Returns, and The Usual Suspects. He is currently directing X-Men: Apocalypse, which is scheduled to be released next May as we previously reported.
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