David Lowery and Affleck back together for sci fi project

Writer/director David Lowery and actor Casey Affleck, who last worked together on 'Ain’t Them Bodies Saints', are set to be working together again on a new project which The Hollywood Reporter describes as "thinking man’s sci-fi tale."

Lowery has signed a deal to adapt and direct 'To Be Two', an adaptation of 'To Be Two or Not To Be' from the 'Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology' short story collection by Paul Broks.

Affleck is set to star and executive produce with Lowery, Toby Halbrooks and James M. Johnston of Sailor Bear (Halbrooks and Johnston were producers on 'Saints') while Jim Wilson is attached to produce and Silver Reel will finance script development.

The film is said to be set in a world where teleportation exists and people are scanned, the digital self sent to Mars, reconstructed atom by atom, while the original is vaporized. Its tone is said to be similar to last year's 'Looper'.

Lowery is currently a very busy boy: set to write and/or direct several other projects including a new version of 'Pete’s Dragon', the thriller 'Torso', and 'The Old Man and the Gun', with Robert Redford.