The Italian director Gabriele Muccino (“The Pursuit of Happyness”) is in talks to negotiations to direct Keanu Reeves in Morgan Creek’s science-fiction “Passengers.”

Muccino says that he expects to start shooting “Passengers”, which is being developed by Reeves and his Company films partner Stephen Hamel. James G. Robinson will produce, with Jon Spaihts writing the script.

The story of “Passengers” follows a passenger on a long-range space ship (Reeves), who awakens from his cryogenic sleep 90 years before he is scheduled to due to a computer error. Faced with the prospect of being alone in space by himself, he decided to wake up another passenger to keep him company, a beautiful young woman.

Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “Passengers”.

By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety)