'Riddick' helmer David Twohy to direct US-China co-production

'Riddick' helmer David Twohy has been roped in to write and direct 'Ice Moon Rising', a major sci-fi movie that is set to be a US-China co-production.
The project is being produced by Das Films' Sriram Das and Greater China producer Steve Chicorel, reported Variety.
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The film is set in space when a Chinese and American task force venture to Jupiter's moon Europa to awaken an astronaut from a cryogenic stasis, some 24 years after he was attacked by alien creatures in Europa's sub-glacial seas.
He then has to be reunited with his wife and a daughter he has never met.
"It is very unusual to find a film of this genre which has been certified and approved by China Film Co-Production Corporation, and which has a female Chinese lead character, not a supporting role," said Chicorel.
The movie will be shot in Australia and China's island province of Hainan.
"The science will be very real and not overly futuristic. The sci-fi should not distract from the very human story," Das said.
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