According to Deadline, Netflix has acquired the film rights to John Scalzi’s Hugo Award-nominated sci-fi book series Old Man’s War, and is looking to develop the first novel as a feature film with Jon Shestack Productions and Madhouse Entertainment.
The books take place centuries into the future where older citizens are given a choice between ageing and dying on Earth or joining the interstellar Colonial Union, where they will have their minds transferred into super-charged, battle-ready versions of their own younger bodies.”
The story “follows 75-year-old widower John Perry, who discovers he’s a natural fighter and leads his platoon through grueling battles against hostile alien races. But when he meets a soldier who looks like a younger version of his beloved deceased wife, everything Perry thought he knew about his new life, and the war he’s fighting in it, is turned upside down.”
This is the third attempt to bring the book series to the screen, after an aborted Wolfgang Petersen feature film adaptation at Paramount and an abandoned TV adaptation at SyFy.
