Variety reports today that Summit Entertainment and Mandalay Pictures have acquired the rights to Richard Matheson’s short story DEATH SHIP. It was also turned into an extended Twilight Zone episode. For reasons that defy my understanding, they have decided to retitle it COUNTDOWN. Apparently they didn’t believe they could get BORING F*CKING TITLE past the MPAA.
Titular issues aside however, the story has a pretty strong concept. It centers on astronauts who land on a mysterious planet and discover their own bodies in the wreckage of a duplicate of their ship. They’re forced to find a way out of the time loop that has them trapped amid hostile creatures and a series of contentious characters.
And hey, if it doesn’t work out, well you’ve always got the Twilight Zone episode to fall back on.
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