He’s still best known for giving Sony a hit with Easy A and rocketing Emma Stone a few levels up the fame charts, but it looks like director Will Gluck is sticking with the studio for now as he’s apparently in talks to direct the adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s book Sex on the Moon.
The LA Times reports that Gluck is apparently looking to team up with The Social Network’s producers to develop a movie based around the comically true tale Mezrich originally reported in a Times article. It’s no surprise that the Network producers would be interested – Mezrich is the man who wrote The Accidental Billionaires, which chronicled the early days of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, and who shared early notes with Aaron Sorkin while he was bashing out the Oscar-winning script.
Sony nabbed the rights to the book back in January. It’s the story of Thad Roberts, a NASA intern who at one point was actually considered as a future astronaut. He put his chances of promotion at the organisation in some doubt, however, when, in an attempt to provide for his girlfriend, he decided to heist some actual moon rocks from the facility where he worked and sell them on the Internet. And he would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for those darn kids and that darn dog… Actually, the FBI nabbed him, but they did take a couple of days to track him down.
Gluck has casual sex comedy Friends with Benefits arriving this summer, and he’s also working on a few other future projects, including an untitled comedy that will see him re-team with Stone as his star and Rehab, another laugh-fest he’s developing with writer Sam Laybourne.