Caffeinated Clint
With his last couple of mo-cap films tanking at the box office, as a consequence essentially killing any mo-cap CGI projects he had in the work, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis has essentially been forced to pull the dust cover over the mac and find something live-action to helm. The “Back to the Future” and “Beowulf” helmer was approached for Warner’s “Superman” reboot “Man of Steel” at one stage, but passed, and he’s announced his intention to direct Denzel Washington in something called “Flight” but besides a couple of projects he’s signed on to produce (including “How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack”), Zemeckis hasn’t got a locked-in date for his next directing gig.
According to Vulture, Zemeckis may be eyeing a return to the time-travel genre with “Replay”, based on the 1987 novel of the same name.
Here’s the synopsis of the novel :
43-year-old radio journalist Jeff Winston dies of a heart attack in 1988 and awakens back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body as a student at Atlanta’s Emory University. He then begins to relive his life with intact memories of the next 25 years, until, despite his best efforts at cardiac health, he dies of a heart attack, again, in 1988. He immediately returns to 1963, but several hours later than the last “replay”. This happens repeatedly with different events in each cycle, each time beginning from increasingly later dates (first days, then weeks, then years, then ultimately decades). Jeff soon realizes that he cannot prevent his death in 1988, but he can change the events that occur before it, both for him, and for others.
Interestingly enough, “Replay” was first offered to Ben Affleck…. who himself was offered “Man of Steel” before Zemeckis… seems someone’s working from the same list, working their way down.
