While we might still be fangirling over STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (check out our review of the film here) a project of screenwriter Damon Lindelof that has everybody talking is TOMORROWLAND. The plot of the film has kept under wraps, but George Clooney and Hugh Laurie are set to star in the project.
Sadly, Lindelof did not reveal that much about the plot either, but he did talk about the inspirations for the project, and how director Brad Bird came on board to the project:
“I was hanging out with Bird, because we were both in the Bad Robot universe; he was posting ‘Ghost Protocol’ as we were working on ‘Into Darkness.’ I kind of got my hooks in him because I started asking him all these questions about Disney, because he worked there for a number of years and was basically trained by a couple of the original Imagineers, and he was like, ‘Why are you asking me these questions?’ and I said, I’m working on this project regarding Tomorrowland,’ and then he was in. And then we went and picked up George Clooney, and we were off to the races.”
But what about the actual details of the story? Many people have theories, especially with Bird’s mysterious box. But Lindelof said that he plans to keep quiet for a while:
“There’s a lot of things out there about the movie, some of which are completely and totally erroneous, some of which are completely and totally dead-on, and I don’t know why I keep finding myself being a secret-keeper, but at the same time, the movie’s going to come out Christmas of ’14, which is 19 months from now. So to just say like, “Here — this is the story of a blah blah blah that then goes to so so so and discovers a blah blah blah, and then everybody lives happily ever after” — I just, I hate that feeling when the trailer is, like, awesome for the first 40 seconds, and then they show you that one thing and you just go, “Ugh, I wish I didn’t know that.”
Well, we’ll just have to take your word for it, Lindelof!
Source: Grantland
