Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Cross

2/5/09 - Orlando Bloom, Vincent Cassel and Olga Kurylenko will star in The Cross, a sci-fi escape movie to be directed by Andrew Niccol, Variety reported.  Niccol has initiated preproduction on the $24 million movie, which is scheduled to start principal photography in July in Australia.  Set in a border town, Cross returns Niccol to his favorite domain: the near future. Bloom plays a man seeking to cross a mysterious border, something no one else has achieved; Cassel is the guard who will go to any lengths to foil him. Kurylenko takes the female lead.

AlienAlmanac.com 2009