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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to the John Scalzi novel series Old Man’s War, with Wolfgang Petersen attached to direct and David Self adapting the tale into a large-scale science fiction project. Scott Stuber will produce through his Stuber Pictures banner, with Petersen also producing. The hero is a 75-year old man who, having lost the love of his life, is amenable to trading his old carcass for a younger, genetically enhanced body so that he can combine the experience of age with the strength of youth and join an outer space military coalition sent to protect human colonies in outer space. Inductees agree to leave their past lives on earth behind, and are promised land on distant human colonies if they live. Injured in battle, he’s rescued by a special-forces officer who seems to be a younger version of his wife. She doesn’t recognize him, but he’s so convinced he has another chance with her that he abandons his unit and risks everything to be with her. Kim Miller will be exec producer and Alexa Faigen is associate producer. Scalzi is a two-time Hugo Award winner who was most recently creative consultant on the TV series Stargate: Universe. Old Man’s War is the first title in a bestselling series that spans four books.
Stuber’s currently producing the Peter Berg-directed Battleship, Keanu Reeves-starrer 47 Ronin and the Denzel Washington-Ryan Reynolds drama Safe House.
Petersen hasn’t directed a film since the 2006 pic Poseidon. That film didn’t work, but before that, the Das Boot helmer had an enviable string of blockbusters: Troy, The Perfect Storm, Air Force One, Outbreak and In the Line of Fire.
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Stuber should stick to comedies, his other films have been turds. Wolfman anyone?
Love Scalzi! LOVE this book!
This could be a good movie IF they don’t squander the thematic essence of the book. It was a Hugo nominee so good source material.
If they keep the humor and make it for an adult audience instead of dumbing or pg-ing it down for kiddies,because the humorous sex scene when they try out the new bodies in the beginning would be gone.
Yahoo! Great book and it’ll make a great movie.
Sure am glad I already read the book since you have major spoilers in this writeup. I certainly won’t read anything you write about anything else if you’re this free to spoil the story.
Go Wolfgang! Go! Or “Los Wolfgang! Los!”, as they say in Germany.
Will Wolfgang also star?
The entire quadrology is excellent – giving rise to the posibility of at least three movies [the fourth book is the story of the wasr from the POV of the 'old man's' adopted daughter and looks at events of the war in a way that gives new meaning to major events].
I hope they let Scalzi consult on the project. He writes in such a vivid manner that the books feel like movies already – and his input might just make things work better.
A terrific book, and Petersen is an excellent choice for it.
Paramount continues to make good decisions. Can’t wait for this!
Way too excited about this.
Great book! Great author! I’ve wanted this movie for a long time. Too bad there are so many spoilers in the article, though.
Great book. Please please please let Scalzi consult on the script and production. Hope they don’t vary too much from the storyline.
Also hope they enlist the artist who did the Subterranean Press edition cover as a consultant. The Consu fights should be excellent regardless
this sounds deeeeee-licious.
When will someone ever get Clifford Simak’s novel “THE WAY STATION” made!!??
Did anybody here read the part where it says it’s going to be directed by Wolfgang Petersen?
Or maybe I’m talking to the wrong group of commenters.
Yes Wolfgang Peterson is directing because Stuber couldn’t get Rolland Emmerich, Kevin Smith, or Ed Wood to agree to terms. He’s also fond of the word “Wolf” since making that smash ht ” The Wolfman”
David Self did great work with the adaptation to “Road To Perdition,” and Scalzi’s an excellent writer, so I’m cautiously optimistic they can make a good movie here.
Fantastic book, great author, great screenwriter, certainly at least a good director — and a terrible, terrible producer. Of course Stuber won’t have actually read the book; that’s not surprising. What’s sad is that there’s no way he’s got the intellectual capacity to understand what makes it work so well. He’s an incredible power-player, and knows how to game the system like no other, but he keeps taking on these projects which he screws up because of an inability to know his own strengths and weaknesses. He was a good studio head. He’s a terrible producer.
When ‘DUNE’ was originally made into a movie way back when, they did have Frank Herbert’s input. The originator of a work has a completely unique perspective that he try’s to convey in word’s, how something look’s in his mind’s eye, the feel of the place being described,etc. Also their is a thread of CONSISTENCY that exist’s throughout the work,- the “Zeitgeist” of the time and place in question. Now to have Johnny Come Lately, who at times has never even HEARD of a work, come along and be entrusted to convey the same expression of it in a different medium (film), is flirting with disaster WITHOUT the writer’s input.
I think this is a great story and very cinematic. The biggest blessing in my opinion is that Stuber set this up at Paramount and not freakin’ Universal where I believe he has his overall deal. I know there are some talented execs at Universal, but there track record lately has been so poor I wouldn’t trust them with this kind of material.
I have a story in progress that would be better -it’s called the invisible warriors-contains inventions that can become reality in the near future
“but he’s so convinced he has another chance with her that he abandons his unit and risks everything to be with her.” Wow, I hope the jackass who adapts the script doesn’t write that in, considering it never happened in the book.
A wonderful book, and as others have indicated let’s pray they don’t ruin the story and characters the way Disney is doing with “On Stranger Tides” for Pirates of the Carribean.
one scary thought: this book has been labeled by some as the modern version of “starship Troopers”, and Scalzi compared to Heinlein; remember what happened to THAT award winning novel?
Have to agree with Ship… “but he’s so convinced he has another chance with her that he abandons his unit and risks everything to be with her.”????
The person who wrote this quote clearly didnt read the book. That quote does not portray what happened AT ALL. Not even slightly.
PLEASE dont do that to Scalzi’s series. The books are so awesome. Just follow the story line of the book. It’s awesome on it’s own. PLEASE!!!