Warner Bros. and Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road have purchased
the rights to the Olatunde Osunsanmi's [The fourth Kind] script, Dark Moon. The
producers reportedly paid high six-figures for the drama with Osunsanmi set to
direct as well. The script presumes that 1972’s Apollo 17 launch was not
the final lunar landing mission of the program.
According to Deadline, the film “uses found footage to make the
case for a black ops post-Apollo mission sent to the moon to explore previously
classified discoveries and its unintended and disturbing consequences.”
The “found footage” approach is a familiar one for
Osunsanmi who also wrote/directed 2009’s The Fourth Kind. While that film was largely hammered by critics, it made around $48 million
worldwide against a modest budget estimated to have been in and/or around the
$10 million range. In addition to Dark Moon, Osunsanmi is also
attached to direct the action/thriller The Commuter for Gold
Circle Films and has adapted Robert Buettner’s alien-attack novel
Orphanage for Davis Entertainment.