Carter Blanchard, whose previous credits include penning a screen adaptation of Brandon Sanderon’s Steelheart back in 2015 for Shawn Levy (a project that sadly hasn’t seem to take off), has sold the rights to his sci-fi story “H.A.V.E.N.” to Sony for adaptation.
According to Deadline, the project was sold as Men in Black meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It centers on a woman who finds herself in the middle of a field with no memory.
Here’s the blurb, per Amazon:
After Becky Fletcher wakes up in a field with no memory of how she got there, she learns that she’s been missing since 1976, yet hasn’t aged a day.
She finds herself living in a world she no longer recognizes — all her friends and family long gone — until learning she had a daughter who went missing with her in 1976, but never came back. A daughter who has been mysteriously erased from her memory.
Before Becky can dig deeper, she’s taken into a top secret government program called H.A.V.E.N.—Home for Abduction Victims of an Extraterrestrial Nature—located in a picturesque mountain community. She learns she’s a long-hauler — someone who’s been abducted repeatedly throughout their life and will be again.
But not in H.A.V.E.N., a safe space for people like her. At first, it’s great. But she soon discovers there’s more to this place than meets the eye when she’s drafted into a clandestine task force of fellow abductees and trained to destroy the mothership the only way possible.
From the inside. Upon their next abduction.
But when new information about her daughter comes to light, Becky is forced to put the mission at risk. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
The project is still in its early days, so no news yet on if/when the movie will go into production.
