Duncan Jones’ Mute Gets A Release Date At Last

Searching For Love?

♦ Duncan Jones’ Mute, the sci fi movie he has been working on for a number of years, will hit Netflix on 23 February 2018…

So here we are.@mute. Starring Alex Skarsgård, Justin Theroux & Paul Rudd.

Out on Netflix February 23.

Got there in the end! pic.twitter.com/rmCE65ghcN

— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) January 19, 2018

To really emphasise just how long he’s been developing the project, Jones then showed off a draft of the script he wrote way back in 2003. “Back then, the film was a very different beast,” he wrote, adding how the setting was initially contemporary London.

So some of you may be aware that I have previously called @Mute my “Don Quixote.” I did this, as much like Terry Gillian’s fabled film of that name, it seemed everything was against Mute ever being made. In fact, here’s an early draft… from 2003! pic.twitter.com/p4LhzmMXOi

— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) January 19, 2018

“It was going to be my first film,” Jones continued. “I sent it to Sam Rockwell who loved it! …but he wanted to play Leo, the part that would later go to Alex Skarsgård. I wouldn’t budge but was so enamoured with Sam, I decided to write something just for him. That was Moon.”

Mute is an upcoming British-German science fiction mystery film directed by Duncan Jones, who also co-wrote the script with Michael Robert Johnson and Damon Peoples. It will star Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux, revolving around a mute bartender searching for the love of his life who has mysteriously disappeared.

The film has been described by Jones as a “spiritual sequel” to his acclaimed 2009 film Moon.

Thanks to EW for some of the info on Mute.