Yes, the headline is meant to capture your attention. After all, writer and co-producer Frank Beddor wouldn’t have described it any other way if it weren’t. The film he’s describing, The Juliet, will apparently be Snow White and the Huntsman helmer Rupert Sanders‘ next directing gig and it’s an adaptation of Alfred Bester’s 1954 short story “Fondly Fahrenheit” set in a near futuristic science fiction landscape.
Speaking with I am Entertainment magazine back in 2010, Beddor first spoke of the project saying, “It’s lovers on the run in space, so think Bonnie and Clyde in space, but with a very unique Bonnie who has a secret. The tone of it is close to the Bourne Identity franchise.”
Wikipedia describes “Fondly Fahrenheit” as follows and you can read the short story here.
The central element of the plot is that a rich playboy, James Vandaleur, and his expensive “multiple aptitude android” have become two aspects of a single insane murderous personality. Vandaleur’s father is dead, having lost the family fortune, and Vandaleur only has the android which, if it works correctly, can bring in more than enough income to support him in the manner to which he had become accustomed.
How that plays like Bonnie and Clyde I’m not exactly sure, but I have to assume it has been adapted and perhaps Bonnie ends up an android. That would count as a secret right? Not exactly a secret we haven’t seen in movies before, but a secret nonetheless. Also, if the title Juliet means anything, tragedy is certainly how this thing will end.
Beddor is the author of the “New York Times” bestseller “The Looking Glass Wars” and also wrote a draft of the Monopoly movie Ridley Scott has been looking at directing forever. He confirmed the project on his blog earlier today along with the piece of concept art you see in this article, giving you a look at the sci-fi world the film will inhabit. His post, however, has since disappeared.
The story has since been picked up by Deadline, reporting the intention is to begin production in the spring.
Only last week Sanders was said to be in contention to direct the Van Helsing movie starring Tom Cruise at Universal as it appears he won’t be coming back for a Snow White and the Huntsman spin-off, should one actually get underway. The Juliet is being set up at Sony.
