MGM will produce 2031: A Blue Origin Space Odyssey, a remake of the classic sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The project comes in the wake of Amazon's acquisition of the legendary studio and its properties, including Stanley Kubrick's 1968 epic.
No word yet on who will direct, but Nicolas Cage is rumored to be interested in shaving his head to play the lead role, an old bald billionaire leading an interplanetary mission aboard a spaceship run by a state-of-the art computer system code-named A.L.E.X.A.
In related news, Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk is reportedly in negotiations with Netflix to develop Starman, an animated children's TV series that would feature the adventures of his Tesla Roadster, with a mannequin in a spacesuit sitting in the driver's seat, that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. --Robert Gray