With his experience behind the camera – particularly as a writer of giant blockbusters – you might expect David Koepp to leap on adapting a book he wrote himself. But while he's working on the script, Koepp has ceded the director's chair to Jonny Campbell.
Koepp's story follows a Pentagon bioterror operative named Roberto Diaz. Sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he finds something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contains it and buries it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. Only Diaz knows how to stop it... Yes, a deadly microscopic thing threatening the human race – that might not be the easiest sell right now, but Paramount is pushing ahead regardless, even if it can't film yet.
Having cut his own directorial teeth mostly on TV (though he made his film debut making odd Ant 'n' Dec sci-fi comedy Alien Autopsy), Campbell has delivered episodes of series and miniseries such as the recent Dracula series, Doctor Who, Westworld, In The Flesh and Spooks.
Empire talked to Koepp about the book and much more on an episode of our Podcast, which you can find below.