Corman To Put Martian Life On The Big Screen
B-movie mogul Roger Corman, never one to let a headline slip by if there might be a movie in it, said he will produce “Mars Lives,” based on Wednesday’s announcement by NASA of possible primitive lifeforms on ancient Mars.
Corman said it would be his biggest-budget movie to date, with the lion’s share of the $20 million budget aimed at special effects. He plans to start shooting in November for a release in late spring.
He said he was working on the “Mars Lives” project with screenwriter Richard Griffith.
“We are working on several ideas at the moment,” he said, “but in general we will take the idea of some group of explorers on Mars who come upon the buried remnants of a dead civilization on Mars, and something comes back to life.”