As he continues the search for a follow-up to his return to live action with Flight, Robert Zemeckis is zeroing in on several projects. He’s already attached to Charlie Kaufman’s young adult book adaptation **Chaos Walking and The Hollywood Reporter brings word that he’s also now considering making a film version of 2010 documentary **Marwencol{
The doc charts the recovery of Mark Hogancamp, who suffered severe brain trauma when he was beaten by five teenagers and ended up in a coma for nine days.
When he emerged, he had no memory of his life, his friends and his family. In a form of therapy, he began building a 1/6 scale model of a World War II-era Belgian village in his backyard, replete with figures made in the image of him, his friends, and, shockingly to some, his attackers. While the process mends his mind to a certain extent, it also lets him escape into a fantasy world in which he creates various scenarios with the dolls.
Jeff Malmberg directed the original version, which was praised by critics and scored a gong at the 2011 Indie spirit awards. Nightmare Before Christmas writer Caroline Thompson is at work on the script for Universal, which is looking for a film that will mix reality and fantasy and, like Chaos Walking, could give Zemeckis scope to blend his performance capture techniques into a live-action film. It remains to be seen which project he picks, assuming either makes it through development.