Veteran sci-fi director Doug Liman (Jumper, The Bourne Identity) will direct from a screenplay by Jez and John Henry Butterworth (Spectre), who previously worked with Liman on Edge of Tomorrow and Fair Game.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony’s Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to make an Unearthed movie, based on the upcoming YA novel written by Amie Kauffman and Meagan Spooner.
When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution the planet has been waiting for.
The sci-fi fantasy book is described as Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones in space.