Jeff Nichols’s upcoming civil rights romance drama, Loving, gets its day this weekend at TIFF. Considering the subject matter it tackles, it should be a worthwile feat to precede what the filmmaker now has in tow with news of his latest attachement to direct a remake of the 1988 sci-fi, Alien Nation for 20th Century Fox.
The film was announced earlier this year with script coming from Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, reapproaching the tale of a not-too distant future L.A. where humans and aliens tenuously co-exist together, unequal in respective liberties. Therein lies the story of a racist cop who finds himself partnered with an alien cop and are ultimately forced to mitigate their differences in order to solve a case.
Its popularity was meager though it managed to get a one-season series and a spate of TV movies, comic books and novels thereafter. Stay tuned!
H/T: The Wrap