Nope, it's not a sequel to the ropey Arnie vehicle The Sixth Day. Rather, The Seventh Day** is a new sci-fi project by Source Code screenwriter Ben Ripley.
With Duncan Jones' Moon follow-up getting all the right sort of attention, Hollywood behind-the-scenes types have been picking it apart to see how it works and whether they can do it again. In particular, Martha De Laurentiis has been rooting through Ripley's trunk of unproduced scripts, and has decided that The Seventh Day is the one with the most potential.
"We are always looking for young, inspiring filmmakers wanting to tell a unique, high-concept story," says De Laurentiis, "and after meeting Shane I decided to immediately snap the property off the market." The film is apparently about a voyage to establish a new colony in space, and De Laurentiis describes it as "The Shining on a spaceship."
Unique? How many Shinings-on-a-spaceship have we had before? Answer: ever so many. But, says Ripley, "We tried to design sequences at every turn which would surprise us and subvert genre expectations." The story was thrashed out with Shane Abbess, who'll be directing, and chimes in with "It'll be a contemporary tale with the soul of a classic."