Though John Krasinski’s latest film A Quiet Place is fresh in theatres, The Hollywood Reporter has reported he is already planning his follow up in the director’s chair. He will team up again with his Platinum Dunes partners and Quiet Place producers – Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller – for the sci-fi film Life on Mars.
Life on Mars will adapt a short story by Cecil Castellucci titled We Have Always Lived on Mars that centers on a woman who is among a handful of descendants of a Martian colony long-abandoned by Earth following a cataclysm. The woman one day finds she can breathe the air on Mars, upending her world and that of her fellow colonists.
Krasinski found the story and took it to Platinum Dunes. Paramount Pictures, the studio which distributed A Quiet Place, is also in negotiations for Life on Mars. There is no writer for the film yet and Krasinski is not expected to star either, but he will produce with Allyson Seeger, a fellow executive at his Sunday Night Productions company.
