Bourne Identity and Mr & Mrs Smith helmer, Doug Liman, making a movie isn’t so much a rare event because he’s slow, but due to the fact he’s fairly fickle and when he does decide he really wants to make something, the people holding the purse strings quite often say no. That seemed like it might be the case with Luna, a movie that’s been hanging around for several years (Liman’s been attached since 2007), moving between studios with no one actually prepared to give it the go ahead.
However now a new financing deal has been put together between Skydance Pictures and New Regency, which has allowed Paramount to finally give it the go ahead, according to Variety.
It was reported in March that Liman was looking for cast members for the movie, which centres on a group of renegade scientists who build a spacecraft to try and steal a mysterious energy source from the moon. Names such as Bradley Cooper, Chris Evans, and Andrew Garfield are said to be contenders for the male lead, but the Variety report doesn’t mention Emile Hirsch and Chris Pine who were possibilities a couple of months ago, so it is not clear if those actors are still in the mix.
Simon Kinberg wrote the latest draft of the screenplay, which was originally written by Liman and John Hamburg/ The film should be the director’s next movie, although there’s no start date set as yet.