The man in the picture above is Duncan Jones, he may well be the next Nolan or Aronofsky because his movie MOON was a hit at the Sundance this year and I can’t wait til June 12th, 2009 to see Sam Rockwell survive 3 years alone with a computer on the moon and the psychological madness the work will have on him (check out the trailer).
According to Hollywood Reporter, Jones’ next gig won’t be an original work, it’ll be an adaptation of the book titled ESCAPE FROM THE DEEP by author Alex Kershaw who’ll also be writing the screenplay.
Here’s the official synopsis of the book..
“By October, 1944, the U.S. Navy submarine Tang was legendary-she had sunk more enemy ships, rescued more downed airmen, and pulled off more daring surface attacks than any other Allied submarine in the Pacific. And then, on her fifth patrol, tragedy struck-the Tang was hit by one of her own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive in their submerged “iron coffin” one hundred-eighty feet beneath the surface. While the Japanese dropped deadly depth charges, just nine of the original eighty-man crew survived a harrowing ascent through the escape hatch. But a far greater ordeal was coming. After being picked up by a Japanese patrol vessel, they were sent to a secret Japanese interrogation camp known as the “Torture Farm.” They were close to death when finally liberated in August, 1945, but they had revealed nothing to the Japanese-not even the greatest secret of World War II.”
