Constantin Film has plans to bring to the big screen Peter Heller’s recent novel The Dog Stars, Variety reports. Published earlier this year, the post-apocalyptic tale is officially described as follows:
Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better lifesomething like his old lifeexists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no returnnot enough fuel to get him homefollowing the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But what he encounters and what he must facein the people he meets, and in himselfis both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for.
Margo Klewans and Robert Kulzer are attached to produce the film adaptation.
You can check out a trailer for the book itself in the player below:
