Sadly, it probably won’t involve Superboy or the Legion of Superheroes, or any other trappings of Golden Age DC Comics.
But I’m guessing it’ll involve a bionic limb.
The project, which just found financing and a producer, is headed up by Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear, the co-writing team behind We Need to Talk About Kevin. That in itself is interesting, as a taught psychological thriller that tackles the oft-unseen in media idea of a woman who never quite adjusts to motherhood and is disgusted by her own child doesn’t seem to have much in common with a film with a premise that sound like a Michael Bay film.
They’re describing the film, named Mobius, because of course that’s the pun you make for a Moby Dick in Space movie, as a “psychological action thriller set in deep space” where “a captain consumed by revenge takes his crew on a death mission fueled by his own ego and will to control an enigmatic alien.” So the movie has a chance of moving beyond the simplicity of its premise, regardless of whether it finds a space analogue for squishing whale semen by hand. A punny title doesn’t seem particularly reassuring, however much it may metaphorically relate to the unending quest of Captain Space Ahab.
(The Hollywood Reporter via The A.V. Club.)
