Gyllenhaal's Moon Movie Hires Another Writer

Paramount is sending Jake Gyllenhaal to the moon in a new film produced and directed by Doug Liman. The Hollywood Reporter says the untitled film has hired Ken Nolan, the man who wrote Black Hawk Down, to reshape a script that has already gone through at least three full versions. Once upon a time, Liman wrote the original story with John Hamburg. Then the author of the book Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden gave the script the once-over, which apparently still wasn't good enough, so Dan Mazeau provided a fresh perspective and included some of the ideas brought forth by Liman, Bowden, and producer Simon Kinberg. And now that goulash of plot points will get one more chef when Nolan begins his rewrites. A lot of projects go through multiple rewrites, so this is nothing new, although for a film originally written by the director (a notoriously hands-on director, at that), it does seem a little out of the ordinary. The movie is an action film about lunar colonization, which is pretty timely given that Earth only has about eight more weeks to live.