John Scalzi reports that he sold film rights to his Old Man’s War series to Paramount Picture. Wolfgang Petersen is attached to the project as director and the David Self adaptation. Peterson and Scott Stuber will produce.
The series tells the story of a far-future, when the aged can trade in their declining lives (and bodies) for a new chance at life in a younger, genetically engineered body, if, that is, they’re willing to serve in the military in a war far from Earth.
Petersen’s last film was Poseidon (2006). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Das Boot (1981), and also directed Troy (2004), Air Force One (1997), Enemy Mine (1985), and The NeverEnding Story (1984). Self wrote Road to Perdition (2002, for which he was nominated for an Edgar Award), The Wolfman (2010), and The Haunting (1999).