Gattaca director Andrew Niccol sets up new sci-fi flick I’m Mortal

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Last Updated on July 23, 2021

It’s been eight years since Andrew Niccol (right) last plumbed the depths of cinematic science-fiction (S1M0NE), and thirteen since his masterful feature debut GATTACA. In the interim, the man joined forces with Nic Cage to bring us LORD OF WAR, but that was a good five years ago. So what the hell’s the dude been up to? Well, in addition to being attached to THE CROSS and THE HOST, a pair of sci-fi tinged genre flicks, word out of Heat Vision today states Niccol is setting up a new project called I’M MORTAL. Scope it…

With New Regency and Strike Entertainment in line to distribute and produce, I’M MORTAL will be set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality.

The protagonist is a poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as “time keepers.”

Very nice. Sounds like it has shades of LOGAN’S RUN crossed with MINORITY REPORT. Could be all kinds of radical!

Of course, none of this should seem vastly alien to Niccol, a filmmaker who somehow manages to incorporate otherworldly material into most of his work.

Word is I’M MORTAL might have a shot at lensing this summer in L.A.

LORD OF WAR star Bridget Moynahan!

Source: Heat Vision

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