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Kyra Sedgwick is set to direct SF romance Space Oddity, starring Kyle Allen, Alexandra Shipp and Madeline Brewer.

Deadline is reporting that the movie written by Rebecca Banner – part of the 2016 Black List scripts – follows Alex (played by Allen), after giving up on Earth and deciding to leave it all behind for a one-way mission to Mars, develops an unexpected romance with Daisy (Shipp), the enigmatic town newcomer, which forces him to choose between an uncertain journey to the stars and an even more uncertain journey of the heart. Brewer plays Alex’s sister Liz.

“As soon as I read Space Oddity, I knew this was a film I had to direct. This family is so beautifully flawed, so perfectly human. The humour and the heart jumped off the page. We started Big Swing to tell just this kind of story – one that centres on hope but never shies away from the struggle that makes us all part of this fragile experiment on Earth. And there is no better place to film this story than in the beautiful state of Rhode Island,” Sedgwick told Deadline.

The film is about to go into production.