Saturday, April 30, 2011

Zemeckis Has Travel Plans

Robert Zemeckis is in talks to direct the time travel thriller Replay says Vulture.


Based on the bestselling 1987 novel by Ken Grimwood, the story follows a forty-something radio journalist who dies of a heart attack in 1988, but re-awakens back in 1963 in his eighteen-year-old body with all his memories intact.He soon finds himself living the same cycle over and over, each time he has the ability to make a new set of choices, resulting in different spouses, progeny, and jobs.While he can't prevent his own death, he sets about trying to prevent the death of his daughter.

Jason Smilovic adapted the script

Zemeckis knows something about doing time travel pics as the director of Back to the Future trilogy; He is expected to make this film before moving on to the Denzel Washington-led thriller "Flight" .

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