For a long time, it looked like Doug Liman’s moon heist thriller – now called Luna – might not ever get off the launch pad. But things are finally looking up, with Paramount locking in a deal to fund the film with a couple of partners and giving Liman the real greenlight to start rounding up a cast and crew.
Luna finds a group of renegade scientists cobbling together a spaceship from spare parts to heist an energy source from the moon, and need one more crewmember to complete the job.
The film has been struggling through development hell for a while now, originally landing at DreamWorks in 2007 and locking in Jake Gyllenhaal to star. But both the studio home and the star slipped away, with Paramount getting the rights to the film in the divorce from DreamWorks and Gyllenhaal moving on to other things.
Since then, the script has been through the hands of Simon Kinberg, Mark Bowden and Ken Nolan, among others. And then in March, Liman started talking it up and dropping names of actors he was talking to, including the usual batch of hot young things including Andrew Garfield, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson and Olivia Wilde.
According to Variety, you can now add the likes of Bradley Cooper and Chris Evans to the list of those that Liman has talked to about the film. With the money finally in place, we bet he’ll start signing some actors up soon enough…