Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Old Man’s War

2/24/11 - Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures has bought the rights to Old Man's War, the first in a four-book series by John Scalzi, and has attached Wolfgang Petersen as the director.  The novel follows a widowed 75-year-old man who agrees to trade in his old body for a younger model with enhanced physical strength and psychic abilities. The catch is that he must join a military coalition assigned to protect human colonists in deep space. After he is injured in battle, however, he meets another enhanced soldier who may be the younger version of his late wife—and who has no memories of her previous life.  Screenwriter David Self has been hired to write the script.

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