Focus launches 'Mars' at AFM

LONDON -- Irish helmer Ruairi Robinson is positioned to direct his first feature film "The Ultimate Days on Mars," with various script by Clive Dawson, which Focus Features Intl. will probably be pre-delivering customers within the American Film Market now. The thriller, that's in pre-production, will probably be produced by Texting Films' Michael Kuhn ("The Duchess," "Being John Malkovich") and Andrea Cornwall ("The Scouting Book for Boys"). Pic, which was formerly titled "The Performers,Inch follows the story from the astronaut crew on Mars near a substantial breakthrough getting collected rock people that reveal microscopic evidence of existence. Inside their last several hours on the planet, two astronauts go back to a cavernous valley initially of Mars to collect further evidence for discovery, but a routine excavation turns deadly when one of these simple falls to his dying and also the is taken just like a host and re-animated with the expereince of living form they looked for to discover. Pic is skedded to lense noisy . 2012 on location in Jordan and Shepperton Art galleries inside the U.K. Robinson may also be skedded to direct another high-concept sci-fi pic, "The Fallen," they is developing with Lionsgate U.K. and producer Kris Thykier. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com