Disney buys rights to Tron: Legacy director's graphic novel
It’s shaping up to be a pretty good year for Joseph Kosinski: Based on its promising trailer, the Tron: Legacy director might just redeem the whole notion of the “reboot,” and as a reward, Disney has just purchased the rights to his upcoming graphic novel Oblivion for seven figures, in what’s being called “one of the largest rights deals of the year.” Oblivion (due this fall through Radical Publishing) is set on a future, now-uninhabitable Earth where radiation has forced mankind to relocate above the clouds while savage aliens have taken over below. The main story involves a repairman who leads a lonely life on the surface tending to the drone ships that patrol for aliens; when he finds a beautiful woman in a crashed spaceship, he embarks on “a journey filled with romance and adventure.” (Sort of like WALL-E, minus the clear liberal agenda.)