Game of Thrones director Brian Kirk is set to helm the sci-fi film Passengers, which will star Keanu Reeves. This will be the first major feature film for Kirk who has also directed episodes Boardwalk Empire.
According to Deadline, the story "follows a spacecraft transporting thousands of people to a distant colony planet that has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result, a single passenger (Reeves) is awakened 90 years before anyone else. Faced with the prospect of growing old and dying alone, he eventually decides to wake up a second passenger, marking the beginning of what becomes a unique love story."
The second passenger is a female that has yet to be cast. The script is being written by Prometheus scribe Jon Spaihts. This is a cool concept, and I think that Kirk has the talent to turn this into an incredible movie.