Luna - Jake Gyllenhaal as smart, obsessed, 'difficult' Cole Nealson?

The script - well, one of them - for UMP, the Unnamed Moon Project, has popped up, with the suggestion that it's the version penned by Doug Liman and Black Hawk Down screenwriter Mark Bowden. In other words, rewrite number 1 and script number 2. And it has the title of Luna.


You can read a full assessment of the plot here and also download it to read yourself. Obviously, it's spoilery, although as this is a rewite that is currently being rewritten I doubt that matters too much, it doesn't to me. From this, it appears that Jake Gyllenhaal's role would have been/is (and I quote) 'Cole Nealson. He wrote some sort of fuck-you doctoral thesis that lays out a stripped down, low-cost, high-risk Moon mission, complete with thrust vectors, orbital speeds, fuel ratios, escape geometry ... it appears to be the blueprint they’re following. He itemized ten things that would have to be stolen. NASA describes him as young, off-the charts smart, obsessed with the Moon, and “difficult.”'


Cole is an observer - dareIsay geek - whose cheap plan to land on the moon is stolen by a mysterious woman with an Eastern European accent and who finds himself regaining consciousness in the back of a rocket held together by double-sided sticky tape and shoelaces.

One wonders what the new scriptwriters are doing with it... and who would play Anya, the 'hot Eastern European woman' (except for Cate Blanchet of course).

Pictures from IHJ.