Old Man's War bought by Paramount

John Scalzi’s tremendous, Heinleinesque space opera Old Man’s War has been greenlit by Paramount, and will be directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by David Self. From my review:

Old Man’s War is a cross between Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and Haldeman’s Forever War — a raunchy, action-packed, thought-provoking book about galactic-scale warfare where lightspeed lag and distant, unimaginable alien technology are central to the story.

In Old Man’s War, senior citizens can enlist in the space army, and when they do, they are taken away and rejuvenated, using secret technology, given a turn in battle, and the survivors are retired to a distant world, never to see the Earth again. For a certain kind of person, this is infinitely preferable to certain senescence and death, and that’s the sort of person that fills the pages of Old Man’s War.

Paramount Buys ‘Old Man’s War’ For Wolfgang Petersen And Scott Stuber

(via Scalzi)