Cary Fukunaga (Maniac, Beasts of No Nation) and David Lowery (A Ghost Story, Pete’s Dragon, Peter Man) will be writing a TV pilot script for Paramount Television based on Joe Dante’s 1985 film Explorers, Deadline has confirmed.
Lowery’s recent writing and directing credits include A Ghost Story, The Old Man & the Gun, Pete’s Dragon, and Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.
The film is about a boy obsessed with ’50s sci-fi aliens movies who has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind.
His latest screenplay, the live-action adaptation of Peter Pan, is currently in pre-production, which Lowery will also direct.