Michael B Jordan to co-produce T-Minus, an action thriller based on a Philip K Dick story

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Said to be a mix of Top Gun and Back To The Future, T-Minus will be an expensive-sounding action thriller based on a Philip K Dick short story. Michael B Jordan will co-produce.


Michael B Jordan, whoā€™s currently working with Ryan Coogler on his currently untitled horror movie, now has another major project in the works. Called T-Minus, itā€™ll be produced by Jordan through his company, Outlier Society, in partnership with Amazon MGM Studios.

The script will be co-written by Drew Pearce, who wrote the upcoming The Fall Guy, and Nick Cuse, writer of TVā€™s Watchmen and Masters Of The Air.

Whatā€™s really intriguing about T-Minus ā€“ for this writer at least ā€“ is that itā€™s based on a Philip K Dick short story, A Little Something For Us Tempunauts.

First published in 1974, itā€™s about three time travellers (the Tempunauts of the title) whose mission to journey 100 years into the future goes wrong. Instead, they end up stuck in a time loop in which theyā€™re doomed to relive the same week over and over again ā€“ unless they can find some means of escaping it.

Deadline reports that this brief story is being blown up into an ā€œelevated piece with major tentpole potentialā€ and describe Pearce and Cuseā€™s script as ā€œTop Gun meets Back To The Future with a Philip K Dick twist.ā€

Assuming it happens, T-Minus will therefore follow a long line of Philip K Dick stories blown up into expensive ā€“ and sometimes brilliant ā€“ Hollywood films. Ridley Scottā€™s Blade Runner was based on Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep; Paul Verhoevenā€™s Total Recall turned We Can Remember It For You Wholesale into an unforgettable sci-fi vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger; Steven Spielberg expanded Minority Report into a futuristic thrill-ride for Tom Cruise. We probably shouldnā€™t dwell too much on John Wooā€™s Paycheck, though.

It sounds as though itā€™s early days for T-Minus, with no director or cast announced ā€“ itā€™d be quite surprising if Jordan wasnā€™t playing one of those time travellers, though, wouldnā€™t it?

More on this as we get it.

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