‘Starman’: Brendan Fraser to Lead New Sci-Fi Feature!!

The ever-busy Brendan Fraser is blasting off for his next film. Amidst a successful career revival that saw him win a Best Oscar Academy Award for The Whale, the Mummy star is set to star in a new science fiction adventure. The film is being shopped at the Cannes Film Market this month.

According to reports, Fraser will star in Starman, which is not a remake of the 1984 John Carpenter science fiction romance. Fraser will play Tom Adams, a scientific visionary who’s leading a historic mission to Mars. Along the way, however, something goes wrong, and he finds himself stranded millions of miles from Earth. Soon, he’s on a quest for survival, driven not only by self-preservation but by love. The film is written and directed by Josh Wakely in his feature film debut; Wakely is the creator of the Netflix animated series Beat Bugs and Motown Magic. It is expected to begin production this summer.

What Has Brendan Fraser Appeared in Lately?

Last year, Fraser starred in Rental Family, the tale of an American actor in Japan who hires himself out as a stand-in family member. This summer, he’ll star in Pressure, the true story of the most consequential weather forecast in history: Andrew Scott plays James Stagg, the meteorologist who was tasked with predicting whether the elements would cooperate with the D-Day invasion in 1944, while Fraser plays General Dwight D. Eisenhower. This year, he’s also starring alongside Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Vicky Krieps, and Andy Garcia (who also directs) in the crime drama Diamond; it will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this month. Further in the distance, Fraser will return to one of his most iconic roles in a new sequel to The Mummy; he’ll be joined by Rachel Weisz and John Hannah in a new entry of the classic supernatural adventure series. He has also signed on to star in Barry Levinson‘s Assassination, a mystery thriller centering around the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Starman will be produced by Eddie Vaisman of Sight Unseen, who produced Rental Family. Wakely and Rebecca Graham also produce for Grace: A Storytelling Company. Screenwriter David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight) will executive produce along with Tarek Sherif, Ryan Graves, and Sight Unseen’s Julia Lebedev.