Director Sam Raimi and writer Andrew Marlowe are currently in talks to create big budget alien invasion movie, EDF…
What do you get if you mix "Top Gun with Independence Day and add a pinch of The Last Starfighter"? The answer, according to Vulture, is an alien invasion project currently in the works at Warner Bros.
Maverick Evil Dead director turned Hollywood stalwart Sam Raimi is said to be in "deep negotiations" with Warner to create EDF, which stands for Earth Defense Force. Hollow Man and Air Force One writer Andrew Marlowe is scribbling the script, which details the efforts of Earth's armies to repel a full-scale incursion from extraterrestrials.
As described by Vulture, the script sounds like 90s blockbuster Independence Day with an extra act or two added to the back end. Having survived one initial onslaught, a united effort is made by Earth's forces to defend the planet from a second, far larger armada.
The word is that Raimi won't be in the director's chair, so who will step in to fulfil that role isn't yet clear.
But with the picture still at such an early stage (EDF isn't necessarily its confirmed title), it'll almost certainly arrive well after the current wave of alien attack movies about to take over cinemas, which includes the likes of Skyline, Battle: Los Angeles, Cowboys And Aliens, and Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo's quirky invasion romance, Extraterrestre.