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Jordan Vogt-Roberts (“The Kings of Summer”, the upcoming “Skull Island”) is in talks to direct coming-of-age drama “The Stars My Destination”, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The adaptation of the classic sci-fi tale by Alfred Bester that just landed at Paramount is being produced by MGM via Disruption Entertainment.
The story, published as a serialized tale and then a novel in 1957, tells of a man who is marooned in space after his ship is attacked and everyone else killed. When a passing starship ignores his distress beacon, it sets the man on a Count of Monte Cristo-like journey to get revenge.
“Jaunting,” aka teleportation, figures into the story as does an explosive that is set off telepathically.
The film version has been in the works for a while, with Richard Gere at one time optioning the story.
