Italian director Gabriele Muccino, known primarily in Hollywood as the director of Will Smith Oscar Bait aka “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “Seven Pounds”, has come onboard the Keanu Reeves sci-fi love story “Passengers”. Reeves was already onboard the Morgan Creek production, which is set for a summer start date, but now with Muccino attached, the project is halfway home. The film finds Reeves playing a passenger on a spacecraft making a centuries-long interstellar voyage to a new planet, but due to a glitch, is awakened 90 years too early. Still uncast is the female love interest, who in the film is awakened by Reeves’ character in order to keep him company.

Our man Neo will find love in the inky blackness of space if he gets his way in a new film he is developing for Morgan Creek called “Passengers”.