In yet more proof that more important than being good is having plenty of on-screen credits, Walt Disney Pictures has hired Marc Guggenheim to write Time Zones, with Mark Gordon attached to produce. Guggenheim has just come off the superhero flop Green Lantern and was also partly responsible for the short-lived TV shows Flashforward and No Ordinary Family.
You’d have thought by now that Hollywood would have decided that maybe sci-fi wasn’t his forte, but presumably a mix of the fact he’s got the credits and also has a background in comic books (he was in charge of The Flash at DC) means he keeps getting work. And to be fair, maybe he’s just been having bad luck and Time Zones will work out better.
This high-concept thriller is set in a world where fractures in the space-time continuum have appeared, which are called Time Zones. These Time Zones replace one place in time with the identical place from the past or future. The story centres on a man who decides to use this new means of time travel to go back and save his late wife, with help from his estranged daughter.
It’s not known when the movie might go into production, but don’t expect it for a while.