Fox has acquired film rights to Alan Weisman's environmental nonfiction book "
The World Without Us," with the intent of turning it into a tentpole feature for Mark Protosevich to write and Francis Lawrence to direct.
The book, a best-seller and a critical favorite, took on the idea of life on Earth if humans were suddenly to disappear. The book explored how edifices and houses would deteriorate, how long and which man-made objects would linger and last, the environmental impact nuclear waste and other pollutants would have left unchecked and how nature would spread over built environments.