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Fox Acquires The World Without Us

April 2, 2009

Fox has acquired film rights to Alan Weisman's environmental nonfiction book "The World Without Us," with the intent of turning it into a tentpole feature for Mark Protosevich to write and Francis Lawrence to direct.

The book, a best-seller and a critical favorite, took on the idea of life on Earth if humans were suddenly to disappear.

Fox is not aiming to make a documentary but rather a fictional feature buttressed by the book's science. It would, for example, show an event that would lead to man's disappearance.

The plan is for Protosevich to tackle "Without Us" before working on Universal/DreamWorks' "Old Boy" remake, which has Smith attached to star and Steven Spielberg attached to direct.

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COMMENTS (19)

Posted by:

yeah

April 2, 2009

and this is supposed to be tentpole material? it's not a documentary? Mand dissappears, we'll be watching plants and animals sounds like fun,lol.

Posted by:

yeah

April 2, 2009

might check out the book

Posted by:

Horrid

April 2, 2009

History or National Geo Channel already did this. Called "Life After People"

Posted by:

joe asylo

April 2, 2009

man there many of that.

Posted by:

AV FOUNDRY

April 2, 2009

History Channel. Was good.

Lawrence steps away from the camera, ya TRASHED "I Am Legend" Go away. Please.

And you never heard of "Survivor" by Chuck Palahinuk....

Posted by:

Man

April 2, 2009

This is a really cool idea but they need an original reason for making humans disappear.

And how do they follow the world going through hundreds of years of changes through the life of a character???

Posted by:

nick

April 2, 2009

The book was great, but I don't know how you could make a story out of it. The whole point is that there are no humans left. Hopefully they don't decide to go with the whole one person survives angle, cause that would just be a total rip off.

Posted by:

jimigibson72

April 2, 2009

I loved the book. And I agree with nick, I'ts called "I am Legend". I'm kinda skeptical as to what they are going to do with this. Although they have already made documentaries about this on history channel and such.

Posted by:

Willy

April 2, 2009

The only way to do this is to follow a group of nomads around and have some mad max/I am legend style fights with mutated scavengers.

otherwise how do you make a 2 hour movie showing buildings simply rotting away??

Posted by:

essay

April 2, 2009

sooooo - if all the people are gone are we going to tell the story through the eyes of a cockroach?