With Inception earning Warner
Bros $753 million worldwide, the Studios has become more confident in bringing in “big idea” material. The Studio has
just acquired Expulsion, a spec script by Gregg Hurwitz. It’s the
template for a big science fiction film based around an act of terror destroying Earth.
A small band of survivors escape to a planet beyond the solar system. Brad
Weston is the producer. CAA reps the writer, a novelist whose thriller They’re
Watching is being developed by David Dobkin and Jeff Kleeman. He was also a
consulting producer on the ABC series V. Deal comes as Warner Bros
continues to navigate Gravity, the Alfonso Cuaron-directed space movie
that has Robert Downey Jr. but is still struggling to lock in the actress who
occupies the screen by herself for much of the movie.