Variety is reporting that Andy Weir, author of The Martian, is developing a new project at 20th Century Fox, which will be produced by Ridley Scott and Simon Kinberg. Weir pitched the project, the details of which are being kept under wraps, and has also been hired to pen the script for what will be his first screenplay.
The Martian was Weir’s first novel and was originally self-published as a free serial on his website, before making its way to Amazon. The rights were then picked up by Crown Publishing, who turned it in to a New York Times bestseller. Ridley Scott adapted the book last year, with the movie earning seven Academy Award nominations.
This is the second project Fox has set up with Scott and Kinberg in recent weeks, following an adaptation of S. Craig Zahler’s novel Wraiths of the Broken Land, which Scott will direct from a script by The Martian screenwriter Drew Goddard.
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Originally published May 20, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
