Though he hasn't helmed a feature film since the 2007 action fantasy Gabriel, director Shane Abbess now has another directing gig lined up. Variety reports the filmmaker is set to direct 7th Day, a new sci-fi thriller from Source Code writer Ben Ripley. The writer and director spawned the original story on their own which follows a voyage to establish a new colony in outer space. producer Martha De Laurentiis (of Dino De Laurentiis Company) says, "We are always looking for young, inspiring filmmakers wanting to tell a unique, high-concept story, and after meeting Shane, I decided to immediately snap the property off the market."
The producer also apparently described the story as being like The Shining on a spaceship, which sounds pretty damn cool to me. Abbess says the film is "going to be a contemporary take with the soul of classic genre." I'm not ...
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