Sci-Fi Drift | Andy Muschietti to direct

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Skydance Pays $2 Million+ For Sci-Fi Short Story ‘Drift:’ Andy Muschietti To Direct Space Mission Hostage Movie After Wild Auction

Skydance Pays 7-Figures For Sci-Fi Short Story ‘Drift:’ Andy Muschietti To Direct After Out Of This World Auction

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EXCLUSIVE: Skydance won a weekend auction for Drift, an unpublished short story by Ben Queen & Jason Shuman that has It! helmer Andy Muschiettiattached to direct. Deadline hears that the project sold for around $2 million against higher if the movie gets made. Andy & Barbara Muschietti’s Double Dream and Scott Glassgold’s 12:01 Film’s will produce.

The 38-page short story has all the makings of a big sci-fi mission film, and numerous other bids came in with other creative attachments. When his estranged son vanishes during a space mission, a once-legendary, now fallen from grace shuttle commander is pulled into a high-stakes hostage exchange in space to get his boy back from captors who are not from Earth. The comp is Gravity meets Arrival.