It's been five years since writer-director Andrew Niccol's last project, the not-so-well received action thriller Lord of War, and it seems now that the Truman Show and Gattaca writer is ready to return to the sci-fi milieu that's brought him success. THR reports that Niccol is readying the project I'm.mortal, set in a future in which people no longer age, and to avoid overpopulation, "time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities."
The main character of the film is a young man who comes into a time fortune, and eventually has to go on the run from corrupt cops known as "time keepers." THR refers to it as having the potential to be Niccol's most commercial work yet, and though the movies that seem to have inspired it-- Children of Men, Blade Runner-- weren't exactly hits, they're ideas they seem to have currency every time they show up in the theaters.
It's easy to forget after all this time how valuable Niccol's contribution to movies was in the late 90s. Sci-fi's having a moment right now thanks to District 9 and its like, and it'll be good to have Niccol's voice back in the mix.
