Co-creator of 'Alien' Ron Shusett, and Daniel Alter are teaming up to make
2176, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The movie is a sci-fi space opera offering a retelling of the Revolutionary War, written by Thunder Levin and George Saunders.
The story revolves around 13 planetary colonies in the future that rebel against an oppressive "mother" Earth.
"Twenty-six years ago when Dan O'Bannon and I wrote the first 'Alien,' I had brought it to Fox because Alan Ladd Jr. and the execs were looking for their dark version of 'Star Wars,' " Shusett said. "Now I get to do something as sprawling as (George) Lucas' opus."