Disney seems to be having a hard look at the pictures on their slate and making some tough decisions about which to plough on with and which to drop. Recently they canned Robert Zemeckis’ planned Yellow Submarine movie, and now they’ve parted ways with Joseph Kosinski’s Horizons, which was previously known as Oblivion.
Disney first acquired the graphic novel back in October, with Joseph Kosinski set to direct from a script by William Monahan (The Departed). Indeed, only a few weeks ago, screenwriter Karl Gajdusek was brought on board to rewrite the project. Now the project is free to be shopped around to other studios and financiers, which THR says is a sign that the relationship between the Tron: Legacy helmer and Disney is still strong, as they could have just buried the movie, but are instead allowing him to go out and try to find another studio.
The House Of Mouse was apparently uncomfortable in making a PG-13 actionner, with Kosinski keen on making a project with edge. Warners, Fox, Universal and Paramount are apparently now all considering the project.
The story is set in a future where the human race lives above the Earth, among the clouds, after radiation made the planet unliveable. A repairman named Jak, one of the few humans on the desolate planet, disovers a mysterious female who crash-landed on Earth, which sets off a chain of events that causes him to question everything he knows.