Errol Morris is a well-known documentarian directing films such as the Oscar-winning doc The Fog of War in 2003 and 2008’s Abu Ghraig eye-opener Standard Operating Procedure. However, his next film will deviate from the norm and mark the helmer’s first narrative feature as he will direct the Untitled Cryonics Project written by Zach Helm (Stranger Than Fiction).
Of course, this is only a slight deviation as the film will be based on a true story based on Robert F. Nelson’s memoir “We Froze the First Man” and a story that aired on NPR’s “This American Life” this week titled “You’re as Cold as Ice.” The narrative centers on Nelson, a TV repairman who in the 1960s joined a group of enthusiasts who believed they could cheat death with a new technology: cryonics. But freezing dead people so scientists could reanimate them in the future turned out to be harder than Nelson thought.
The film is described as a dark comedy being produced by Mandate Pictures and Steve Zaillian’s Film Rites, with an expectation for the film to fall at Sony Pictures where Film Rites has a first look deal.
