Fox Atomic has snapped up the timely sci fi comedy spec script, SPACE INVADER, and attached Will Arnett to star and produce, VARIETY reported. Peter Principato and Paul Young, via their Principato Young Ent. company, will also produce the film written by written by Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger.
The movie, set on a space station, centers on a love triangle. The writing team, who developed the script with Arnett, began working on the script months before the recent arrest of astronaut Lisa Nowak on charges that she tried to murder a woman she believed was her rival for a space shuttle pilot.
Robbie Brenner and John Davis will exec produce SPACE INVADER.
This is the first project Fox Atomic since Debbie Liebling moved into the production president's post last month, and it's the second film Arnett will star and produce with Principato Young after THE AMBASSADOR at DreamWorks.
Fox Atomic (www.foxatominic.com) is a culturally branded entertainment company providing theatrical movies and digital content targeting the 17- to 24-year-old demographic. Formed in 2006, this new entity of Fox Filmed Ent. produces and acquires product spanning all media platforms, including releasing up to eight feature films per year that focus on various genres. While Fox Atomic's films are distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Fox Atomic maintains its own creative and marketing operations.
