Deadline's Michael Fleming is reporting that Daniel H. Wilson has completed another science fiction novel, which means Hollywood studios have once again engaged in a bidding war to acquire a property they may or may not make into a feature film!
The big winner this time is Summit Entertainment, which outbid the likes of Paramount and Working Title to acquire the as-yet-unpublished AMP for Alex Proyas to produce and potentially direct. The narrative centers on a medical/technological advancement that inadvertently imbues the disabled with superhuman abilities. Fleming describes it as an allegorical sci-fi action flick ala DISTRICT 9. Sounds exactly like the kind of brainy sci-fi I'd like to see Proyas attacking.
Proyas will reportedly shoot AMP in Australia for a "modest budget", as he did with 2009's love-it-or-loathe-it KNOWING (I was unabashedly in the "love it" camp). There's no screenwriter attached yet.
Wilson's other unpublished sci-fi tome, ROBOPOCALYPSE (currently scheduled to hit bookstores on June 7, 2011), sold to DreamWorks in October, and is now one of several thousand projects vying for Steven Spielberg's attention. BUFFY/ALIAS/LOST's is Drew Goddard adapting that one. Wilson also wrote the satirical HOW TO SURVIVE A ROBOT UPRISING, which was nearly a Mike Myers star vehicle at Paramount (the rights are now up for grabs).
