We’ve been hearing Len Wiseman’s name thrown around a lot over the past year or two, but despite being courted for some high profile projects, he still doesn’t have a gig lined up to follow 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard. It’s possible that he’s just being choosy (which makes sense considering that Die Hard was reportedly a pretty grueling shoot), but it also seems like he’s had a bit of bad luck with a few projects falling through or being put on hold. At one point he was supposed to direct the Escape From New York remake, but that seems to be dead, and he is also still attached to the Gears of War movie and the comic book adaptations Atlantis Rising and Shrapnel. However, at this point his next project is shaping up to be something entirely different.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wiseman has signed on to direct an untitled thriller for 20th Century Fox. Based on a script by Jeremy Passmore (Special, Red Dawn) and Andre Fabrizio, the movie is “about a group of people who survive the end of the world and the mystery surrounding how they got to that position”. Yep, another post-apocalyptic thriller… just what we need! The working title for the movie is said to be Nocturne, but that doesn’t really put us any closer to knowing what the movie is about. Are you looking forward to seeing what Len Wiseman does next? And does this movie have any hope of standing out among all the other “end of the world” movies coming out lately?

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