'Riddick' helmer David Twohy to direct US-China co-production

"Riddick" helmer David Twohy has been roped in to write and direct "Ice Moon Rising," a major sci-fi movie that is set to be a US-China co-production.

The project is being produced by Das Films' Sriram Das and Greater China producer Steve Chicorel, reported Variety.

The film is set in space when a Chinese and American task force venture to Jupiter's moon Europa to awaken an astronaut from a cryogenic stasis, some 24 years after he was attacked by alien creatures in Europa's sub-glacial seas.

He then has to be reunited with his wife and a daughter he has never met.
 

"It is very unusual to find a film of this genre which has been certified and approved by China Film Co-Production Corporation, and which has a female Chinese lead character, not a supporting role," said Chicorel.

The movie will be shot in Australia and China's island province of Hainan.

"The science will be very real and not overly futuristic. The sci-fi should not distract from the very human story," Das said.