has picked up feature rights to the latest nonfiction title from author Annie Jacobsen as a potential project for filmmaker . The company has optioned , which hit shelves last month and examines the nuclear
MILITARY establishment. Villeneuve is in talks with Legendary to be involved in the project, which could include serving as producer, writer or director, or some combination of those roles. His longtime producing partner Tanya Lapointe would be involved as well. Villeneuve and Legendary are currently developing a third movie in his series that is based on the writings of sci-fi author Frank Herbert. , which hit theaters in March from Warner Bros., is currently the year’s highest-grossing film domestically, having surpassed $250 million. Jacobsen was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her 2015 book, . The development on follows the success of Universal’s , with the Christopher Nolan film that focused on the creation of the atomic
bomb collecting seven
Oscars and surpassing $950 million at the global
box office. Villeneuve that he is juggling a number of potential projects, including his long-gestating Cleopatra feature. The director said that he is not necessarily in a rush to start work on his planned adaptation of , Herbert’s 1969 follow-up book to , and that the project’s timing is contingent on getting the right screenplay. “I have four projects on the table, currently,” Villeneuve said in the interview that published last month. “One of them is a secret project that I cannot talk about right now, but that needs to see the light of day quite quickly. So it would be a good idea to do something in between projects, before tackling and . All these projects are still being written, so we’ll see where they go, but I have no control over that.” was first to report the news about . THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The
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