Simon Kinberg Will Turn Ruairi Robinson’s ‘The Leviathan’ Into A Full-Length Feature
By Angie Han/March 23, 2015 10:00 am EST
It’s not tough to see why Kinberg and Blomkamp were taken with The Leviathan. The gritty feel and vast scale of The Leviathan proof-of-concept trailer seem to be right up their alley. Inspired in part by Moby Dick, with shades of Dune, the synopsis for The Leviathan reads as follows:
Robinson previously directed the short films Blinky and The Silent City, as well as the feature film The Last Days on Mars. He was at one point attached to direct the live-action Akira remake. (Needless to say those plans didn’t work out, but you can check out the storyboards from back then if you’re curious about what his vision might have been.)
Kinberg has been with Fox’s X-Men franchise since 2006’s The Last Stand, and is also producing Deadpool and Fantastic Four for the studio. He’s also tied up with Disney’s Star Wars franchise, as a co-creator and executive producer of Star Wars Rebels and the writer of one of the upcoming standalone films. In addition, he produced Blomkamp’s Chappie and has Ridley Scott’s The Martian coming out soon.
Blomkamp is coming off of the aforementioned Chappie and is now working on the next Alien movie. Chappie wasn’t really a win for him, in my humble opinion, but he does have a clear love of sci-fi worldbuilding. As long as he steers clear of screenwriting duties on The Leviathan, his involvement is a good thing.
Watch (or re-watch) The Leviathan proof of concept trailer below:
