MUMBAI: In a mid-six figure deal, 20th Century Fox has pre-emptively bought Tranquility Base, a speculative screenplay by first-time scribe Daniel Turkewitz. Scott Free‘s Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Brooklyn Weaver and Jonathan Krauss will produce the big-scale science fiction film that supposedly has elements of Lord Of The Flies in outerspace.

Key to the deal coming together were former Indian Paintbrush guys Mark Roybal and Michael Pruss. Roybal, who ran Indian Paintbrush for Steve Rales, became a Fox exec and Pruss moved over to Scott Free as an exec. Pruss will be exec producer and Rock Shaink will serve in a co-producing capacity on Tranquility Base.