Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

I'm Mortal

10/18/10 - Johnny Galecki is joining the cast of I'm.Mortal, a sci-fi saga whose cast includes Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Olivia Wilde. Andrew Niccol will direct from his own script, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The New Regency project, which starts shooting later this month, is set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality.  Galecki will portray Timberlake's best friend, a screw-up of a father with a drinking problem who wastes all of his family's excess time.

8/9/10 - Cillian Murphy is in final negotiations to star with Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake in the latest sci-fi drama I'm Mortal, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  A Fox/New Regency project from Andrew Niccol, is set in the not-too-distant future, when the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, and the rest try to negotiate for their immortality.  When a poor man named Will (Timberlake) is suddenly given a fortune, he becomes the target of a murder investigation and kidnaps an heiress (Seyfried) while on the run.  Murphy will play an officer from an organization known as Timekeepers and described as "precise as the time he keeps."  The picture is eyeing a late September start.

4/13/10 - Writer/director Andrew Niccol is working on his next sci-fi movie I'm Mortal, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Niccol's project is set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality.  The protagonist is a poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as "time keepers."  The script is one of the hot projects for the under-25 set because every character looks young.  The scenario makes it so that onscreen, adults such as parents appear to be the same age as their kids.  Niccol is currently ensconced in meetings with a deep pool of candidates, eyeing a summer start in L.A.

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