posted 06-03-2008 11:11 PM               

Platinum Studios has teamed with Valhalla Motion Pictures to turn the thriller comicbook "Final Orbit" into a feature film. Russell Gewirtz ("Inside Man") will write the script.

Valhalla chair Gale Anne Hurd and Platinum Studios chairman-CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg will produce.

"Final Orbit," which will be published by Platinum Studios Comics early next year, tells the story of a lottery that gives thrill-seekers a chance to vacation aboard a newly completed International Space Station. But the trips turns nightmarish after the station is damaged, trapping tourists in a crippled module with no trained astronauts to help them.

Randy Greenberg will exec produce and Valhalla's Gary Ventimiglia will co-produce.

Gewirtz's most recent script credit is Al Pacino-Robert De Niro starrer "Righteous Kill."

posted 06-04-2008 08:02 AM               

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
... trapping tourists in a crippled module with no trained astronauts to help them.

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In space, no one can hear you scream ...