Bekmambetov Launches Lunar Boy

The Chicago Tribune reports that "Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov's production company has won the feature film rights to Stephen Tunney's young adult sci-fi novel One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy

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The story is set 2000 years in the future, following a 16-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin, who lives on the now-colonized moon, where he meets a girl from Earth who is inexplicably drawn to him because of his special condition, which gives him the ability to see the future path of time and matter.

Edward Ricourt ("Now You See Me") is writing the adapted screenplay

Bekmambetov will produce the film with Michele Wolkoff and Guy Stodel.