'Downfall’ Director, ‘Constellation’ Creator to Adapt Sci-Fi Drama ‘The Inquest of Pilot Pirx'

FAME is happy announce Oliver Hirschbiegel, the director of Oscar-nominated “Downfall” and European Film Award nominee “The Experiment,” and Peter Harness, the writer, creator and executive producer of Apple TV’s “Constellation,” have boarded the film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s sci-fi novel “The Inquest of Pilot Pirx".

They join sci-fi novelist Adrian Tchaikovsky on the project, having been tapped by producers Nafta Films and Film and Music Entertainment to write and update Lem’s original story.

The English-language film tells the story of Commander Pirx, who leads a small group of androids and humans into space. It’s a double Turing test as the crew discover if they are artificial life themselves as well as identify if their fellow crewmates are too. Events turn dangerous when the mission is disrupted by an unknown saboteur.