Brian Kirk Takes Control Of "Passengers"

Frequent Game of Thrones episode director Brian Kirk will make his feature film directorial debut on the long-gestating "Passengers" says  Deadline.

The Sci-fi film follows  Jim Preston, (Keanu Reeves) a mechanic on a 120-year journey to a distant colonized planet in another galaxy, who becomes the first of the 5,000 travellers to experience pod hibernation failure. Awake a century too soon, he is stranded in the world of an interstellar spaceship with only robots for companionship. A year on his loneliness causes him to awaken a beautiful journalist named Aurora and they fall in love.

The truth of her revival, and a major malfunction on the ship, are also key plot points.

One tine "Prometheus" scripter  Jon Spaihts wrote this original script when it was setup several years ago.

Stephen Hamel and Reeves developed the project, while Hamel and Ben Browning will produce.