This is sort of a surprise.  In a day and age where more and more movies either are sequels to existing franchises or are remakes of long lost favorites, Warner Brothers has gone ahead and dropped a lot of money on a new property - $3 Million, to be exact.

What’s worth $3 mil? The adaptation of a Japanese Sci-Fi novel titled All You Need Is Kill.

While I have little doubt that the title will be changed for the US audience before it hits theaters, the plot sounds REALLY cool.

As stated by the scoopers at Deadline.com:

The storyline puts a Groundhog Day plot device into a futuristic alien invasion storyline. A raw recruit, pressed into battle against an alien species, gets killed in action. But he is reborn each day to suffer the same fate. Eventually, he notices that he is becoming a better warrior and that other circumstances are changing, which might be the key to altering the outcome.

Apparently the deal involves an “aggressive production schedule”, so we could see this movie on screens in just about a year!  Either way, I might just have to check out the novel.

Next stop: movie studios putting out this sort of cash for new and ORIGINAL ideas by untested writers!

Source:  Warners Makes 7-Figure Spec Deal For Japanese Novel All You Need Is Kill’ — Deadline.com.