That didn’t last long! Just yesterday we mentioned that Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser’s 2012 was being shopped around to studios, and now, according to Variety, a heated Wednesday bidding battle ended with Sony Pictures buying the spec script for a summer 2009 tentpole release.
The trade says that several studios bid on the project, while some shied away from a price-tag that could hit $200 million.
The Emmerich-directed pic will start production in late summer or early fall.
The title refers to the apocryphal date that the world is supposed to end, and it frames an ensemble disaster epic akin to The Day After Tomorrow, the blockbuster that Emmerich sold in a similar spec sale and which turned into a global hit for 20th Century Fox.
The Emmerich-directed prehistoric epic 10,000 B.C. (co-written by Kloser) will be released by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures on March 7.
