The picture show adaptation of Joe Haldeman ’s Forever War has been in maturation purgatory for forever . But now there ’s a full - on bidding state of war for a Forever War project in Hollywood , and surprise , it ’s starring Channing Tatum .
THRis reporting that Sony , Warner Bros. and another nameless studio are all push to make scifi novel Forever War into a moving picture . attach to the task is Jon Spaihts ( screenwriter for Prometheus and and future mega - star scifi flick Passenger ) and the one and only Channing Tatum as the star . Warner Bros. is allegedly in the running , which is bang-up for the film , but their current track record on merchandising meter - warping scifi book into filmhasn’t been leading .
The premise is complicated ( but worth the read ): The story follows a group of military recruit as they head off to fight a space state of war against the Taurans . After a few age fighting this alien foe the veterans come back to Earth , but because of the aloofness move around in distance and many other variable star their two years was actually multiple centuries back home . So the group retort to a plaza that is very unfamiliar to them all . plainly , they struggle to adjust .
A long fourth dimension ago , Ridley Scott was attached to this project and evendebuted some of the earlier construct prowess . But now the producers are Roy Lee and Tatum . Look , if Tatum is what it takes for this motion picture to get made with a giving budget then so be it . But let ’s hope it works on some of the more dated themes from the original text .
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