After Commander William Tsien Norton makes the tricky landing of his ship Endeavor on the edge of the colossal craft, he discovers an airlock.

It appeared to be on course to loop around the Sun, but at a dangerously close orbit. “Weighing more than ten trillion tons, smoothly shaped, and racing towards the sun at astonishing speed, Rama was no natural object, but clearly an interstellar spacecraft. Despite so much expansion and discovery, there have been no signs of intelligent life besides our own Earth-born. The synopsis for the award-winning book reads: “By the year 2130, the solar system has been colonized, with humans living on planets ranging from Mercury to the moons of Neptune. We are also pleased to work with Morgan and Lori, who have a long-standing passion for this IP.” “It’s perfectly fitted to our friend and collaborator Denis’ brilliant sensibilities and specifically to his love and passion for science fiction. Set in the 2130s, the novel follows the story of humanity's first encounter with intelligent life from another planet when a team is sent to intercept an unidentified spaceship witnessed rocketing through space that has just entered the solar system.“This is one of the most intelligent works of fiction in the genre it poses as many questions as it does answers, and is a work for our time,” said Johnson and Kosove. Clarke's 1973 novel Rendezvous with Rama, with Broderick Johnson & Andrew Kosove of Alcon Entertainment and Morgan Freeman & Lori McCreary of Revelations Entertainment producing. The director is now attached to a film based on Arthur C. Per THR, Villeneuve has turned his attention toward adapting yet another classic science fiction author. Related: Dune: How Denis Villeneuve Secretly Made The Gom Jabbar Scene So Stressful After that film's success, he stayed in the science fiction arena, shepherding classic properties to the screen in 2017's Blade Runner 2049 and then the first of a two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune, which came out this October. Of the Warner Bros./Legendary slate for 2021 (which were released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max), Dune was one of the only films to cross $100 million in the domestic box office.

In 2016, he directed the mind-bending sci-fi film Arrival, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director among its eight total nominations and one win for Sound Editing.

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