Laika has signed Captain Marvel filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck to write and direct a live-action film based on the upcoming Taylor Jenkins Reid novel Atmosphere.
The novel, to be published next month, centres on a romance between two pioneering female astronauts during the early days of the US space shuttle programme in the late 1970s.
Laika will produce in association with Circle M+P. Producers are Laika president and CEO Travis Knight, the company’s president of live-action film and series Matt Levin, Boden and Fleck, Jenkins Reid and Brad Mendelsohn. Jeremy Kipp Walker is executive producer.
Boden and Fleck broke through as co-writers of independent drama Half Nelson before writing and directing 2019’s $1.1bn-grossing Captain Marvel. Most recently, they wrote and directed Lionsgate action adventure Freaky Tales.
Jenkins Reid’s previous books include Daisy Jones & The Six, which was adapted as an Emmy-winning limited series for Amazon’s Prime Video.
Best known for acclaimed stop-motion animated features such as Coraline and Missing Link, Laika has recently been developing a live-action slate, including action thriller Seventeen and an untitled project to be written and directed by Dune: Part One and Part Two writer Jon Spaihts.
Commenting on Atmosphere, Levin said: “We couldn’t be more excited to team up with three boundary-pushing creative voices on this very special film. From books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo to Carrie Soto is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid always captivates us with rich, emotionally complex characters and she is in peak form with Atmosphere. There are no better filmmakers to adapt Taylor’s story for the screen than Ryan and Anna, who throughout their amazing careers have crafted deeply human stories set against canvases of stunning cinematic spectacle. We can’t wait to see them bring Taylor’s world of Atmosphere to life.”
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