Paramount Buys Sci-Fi Book ‘Nexus’ For Mary Parent And Darren Aronofsky
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Don’t let anyone tell you science fiction isn’t the latest trend sweeping Hollywood. It might take a few years to really take hold but films like this year’sOblivion, After Earth, GravityandEnder’s Gamehave studio executives prepping for a whole new wave of sci-fi projects. Universalpicked up a new oneearlier today and now Paramount has the latest. It’s a novel calledNexusbyRamez Naamand it’ll be produced byMary Parentthrough Disruption andDarren Aronofskyvia Protozoa. ScreenwritersAri HandelandMark Heymanare in talks to adapt.
So what’s it about? Read more below.
Deadlinebroke the news of Paramount buying Nexus. Here’s the plot description fromAmazon:
When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage – for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes.
From the halls of academe to the halls of power, from the headquarters of an elite US agency in Washington DC to a secret lab beneath a top university in Shanghai, from the underground parties of San Francisco to the illegal biotech markets of Bangkok, from an international neuroscience conference to a remote monastery in the mountains of Thailand -Nexusis a thrill ride through a future on the brink of explosion.
Sounds like a movie I’d love to see Aronofsky direct. Alas, he’s only producing as of now. The screenwriters are recent collaboraters, though, and by the time they’re done,Noahshould be out. We can hope.
Have you readNexus?
