I found these two articles on Sci-Fi Wire:
Producer David Heyman and Mike Medavoy’s Phoenix Pictures have teamed to option the feature-film rights to Robert Heinlein’s classic SF novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Variety reported. Published in 1966, the book centers on a computer repairman and moon resident who gets caught up in a rebellion against the authority that controls it from Earth, the trade paper reported. DreamWorks previously optioned the novel.
Heyman’s Heyday Films also holds the option to the late author’s “Have Spacesuit Will Travel,” the trade paper reported.
Heyman told Variety that Heinlein’s widow, Virginia, gave her blessing to their acquisition of the project shortly before her death Jan. 26. “She wanted to know who was going to do it,” he said. “She looked at our bios and decided that it seemed like we wouldn’t screw it up.”
Well, Heyman’s bio includes the Harry Potter flicks and some clunkers, including “The Stoned Age” a comedy about two stoners out on the town one night, and “Ravenous,” about cannibalism.
Also, this:
Heinlein’s ‘Spacesuit’ Optioned
Warner Brothers has optioned film rights to Robert Heinlein’s classic SF tale “Have Spacesuit—Will Travel” for Harry Potter producer David Heyman, via his Heyday Films banner, Variety reported. Vince Gerardis and Ralph Vicinaza will executive produce under their Created By banner. No screenwriter has been hired.
The film will tell the story of a teenager who loses a contest that will take the first teen into space, but wins the consolation prize: a spacesuit from the original Apollo missions. When he discovers the spacesuit has made alien contact, the boy is propelled into an adventure of intergalactic proportions, the trade paper reported.
Heyman is now in production in London on the third installment in the Potter franchise, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.”
I’m not worried so much about HSS-WT. Remember, it is one of Heinlein’s juvenile novels. It wont hurt the movie to be produced by someone who knows how to produce movies based on juvenile books.
Praise the Creator that Paul Verhoaxen Verhoeven will have nothing to do with it either one.
However, I am not sure Heyman is the person to produce TMiaHM. “Moon” is a very adult, overtly political novel. In addition to being a science fiction classic, it is a also a libertarian manifesto. Nothing Heyman has done in the past indicates an an ability to portray these ideas on the screen.
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