Announced back in August of this year, Nine Lives is not, in fact, a remake of the much-maligned Kevin-Spacey-plays-a-cat comedy. It's actually an adaptation of a story by late sci-fi stalwart Ursula K. Le Guin, and the film has moved to the casting stage, adding Common and Jonny Lee Miller.
Fresh Meat/Plebs veteran Tom Basden adapted the script from Le Guin's novelette (first published in the pages of Playboy) alongside director Siri Rodnes. Nine Lives is set on a moon base where humanity is involved in off-world drilling. Two jaded workers are energised by the idea of some new human company, only for their mood to sour when they realise their bosses are sending 10 clones.
The rights to the film will be up for sale at the Macau Film Market, with a shoot pencilled in for next summer.
Common, last seen in Hunter Killer has a few films on the way, including action thriller Eve and mob drama The Kitchen. Miller is at work on the latest series of TV drama Elementary.
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