British sci-fi novelist Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time book series) has adapted Stanislaw Lem's novella, The Inquest of Pilot Pirx, as a movie project. Variety reported that Nafta Films, led by Esko Rips, and Film and Music Entertainment, headed by Sam Taylor, have teamed up to produce the movie.
Lem's story was previously adapted as a film by Polish director Marek Piestrak in 1979. The new project has garnered support from the Estonian Film Institute, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, and the Creative Europe MEDIA Program.
"We are over the moon to team up with Esko Rips and Nafta and bring the combined vision of science fiction's two most brilliant authors to the big screen," Taylor said. "Both writers are my personal heroes and the deep theme of artificial intelligence set within an epic galactic setting will make the film both timely and timeless."
Rips commented: "Nafta Films prides itself on our story-first approach to filmmaking and could not be more thrilled to bring to life this thought-provoking tale by one of the greatest science-fiction writers of all time. Sam Taylor and the FAME team are the perfect partners with whom to bring this intelligent and dynamic story to life."