It has been reported that the man behind
Back to the Future, Contact, Forrest Gump, Flight, and many more films is in advanced negotiations with Warner Bros. to direct their new astronaut thriller -
Ares.
Ares is a project that was recently set up over at WB, and sources close to Deadline are confirming that Zemeckis is in talks to head up the sci-fi thriller. Its being said that the director will indeed work off of the existing script that was previously penned by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, co-writer of Disney and Marvel's
Captain Marvel.
The movie's plot is centered around an astronaut that survives despite his space capsule landing in an African desert, who goes on to suspect a conspiracy behind his mission which hides secrets with world-changing ramifications. Zemeckis is also to produce, alongside his partners at ImageMovers, Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke. Additional producers are Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirick with Rideback, Kristin Winkler, as well as Roland Emmerich, who will be executive producing through Centropolis Entertainment.
While we wait to find out more information on
Ares, have a blast from the past by checking out the trailer for
Back to the Future below!
A teenager is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.