Here’s a bit of box-office trivia: Scott Derrickson‘s remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still was the top-grossing live-action movie released by 20th Century Fox in 2008, worldwide.
So now, according to Variety, Derrickson is taking another plunge into the waters of science fiction, this time as director of Hyperion Cantos, a movie based on the first two books in Dan Simmons’s Hugo-winning, Nebula-nominated Hyperion tetralogy.
The film is being produced by Warner Brothers and GK Films, and the script is being written by Trevor Sands.
I have never read the books, but now, of course, I am curious to do so.
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