Two-time Oscar winning director Ron Howard is
reteaming with his Apollo 13 screenwriter William Boyles Jr. for the adaptation
of Neal Stephenson's 2015 sci-fi novel Seveneves.
"What
would happen if the world were ending?
A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time
bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band
together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far
beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
But the complexities and unpredictability of human
nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid
pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .
Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven
distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey
into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and
time: Earth.
A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision,
Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and
literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait
of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson
explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking
saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant."
Imagine Entertainment and Skydance will produce the
film.
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