Sony Pictures Entertainment has purchased the spec script "2012", setting production this fall for a 2009 summer release, to be directed by Roland "Independence Day" Emmerich.Emmerich wrote the screenplay with his "10,000 B.C." co-writer Harald Kloser.
Budget for the film could go as high as $200 million, in a story that refers to the Mayan Calendar that suddenly 'ends' in 2012, the year the 'gods' return to Earth.
Emmerich's "10,000 B.C." will be released by Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures on March 7...
