Two teens at a party enter a closet together to play the classic childhood kissing game “seven minutes in heaven”… when they exit, they discover that all of their friends are dead.
That’s all we know about the plot of 7 Minutes in Heaven, the thriller being developed by – who else? – J.J. Abrams and longtime Lost colleague Jack Bender, who recently directed the series’ final episode. The project, based on an original idea from Bender, has been set up by Abrams at his Bad Robot production company, where it will likely be developed into a feature for Paramount, Heatvision reports.
Bender inked a deal with Bad Robot last June to direct, and Abrams and his team are now looking for a writer to flesh out the idea. If the film gets made, 7 Minutes in Heaven would be Bender’s second ever directorial endeavor on a feature film (third if you count his 1991 Child’s Play 3), after Paramount’s new Jack Ryan flick Moscow, which the longtime television director is also in negotiations to helm.
7 Minutes in Heaven joins a number of other ongoing projects in development at Bad Robot, including Boilerplate – an adaptation of the mock-historical graphic novel-picture book about the world’s first 19th century robot – and the Rachel McAdams – Harrison Ford comedy-drama Morning Glory. Abrams himself will next direct Super 8 with Steven Spielberg, followed by the highly anticipated sequel to his 2009 Star Trek reboot. Abrams is also producing Mission: Impossible 4, slated for a December 2011 release.
Source: Heatvision
