Joseph Kosinski's "Oblivion" Has Found It's Scribe
William Monahan, the Oscar-winning writer of “The Departed,” has been hired to write Disney’s Joseph Kosinski sci-fi project “Oblivion.”
The move solidifies the high-priority status of the project at Disney while continuing to show the studio is willing to work with big-name talent to develop its projects.
The story is set on a future Earth, where civilization lives above the clouds and alien scavengers stalk the irradiated surface below. When a surface drone repairman is thrust into an adventure after he finds a woman inside a crashed spacepod planetside.
Kosinski partnered with Radical Studios for “Oblivion,” first hatching it as an illustrated novel before setting it up at the studio.
Disney had in the past developed a reputation for being a bit tight with the purse-strings when hiring writers and directors to develop talent. The first sign things were changing under the Rich Ross-Sean Bailey regime was the big ticket development of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” with David Fincher and “Bourne Ultimatum” writer Scott Z. Burns.
Monahan’s credits include “Edge of Darkness” and “Body of Lies”
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