Joseph Kosinski, still hard at work on post-production for Tron Legacy, is soon going to have to start putting “World’s Hardest Working Director” after his name.
We reported recently on speculation that his next film after Legacy would be Archangels, he has already signed on to direct a remake of The Black Hole for Disney, he will have first refusal on a further Tron sequel (which is apparently already being written) and now comes news from Deadline that he is to pitch an adaptation of the graphic novel “Oblivion” to Disney this week.
Oblivion, which Kosinski wrote with Arvid Nelson, is a science fiction love story about a soldier who works on a future-set earth, where the population lives above the clouds as a result of the surface of the earth having become uninhabitable. This soldier repairs drones that patrol the desolate surface and destroy savage aliens known as “Scavengers”, when a woman crashes to the surface in a craft and they set of on a journey of discovery and adventure.
According to Deadline, Kosinski had the project in mind for years and had intended it to be his directing debut. Tron Legacy wound up not just taking that position, but most of his life for the past three years, however Oblivion sounds like an intriguing prospect and certainly one with plenty of cinematic potential.
The trailers for Tron Legacy look sensational and with the volume of work Disney seem determined to continue to put Kosinski’s way, one can only assume that they like what they see.
