Just a couple of weeks ago, we brought you the news that Olatunde Osunsanmi (The Fourth Kind) had joined forces with producer Akiva Goldsman and Warner Bros. to write and direct a new project entitled, Dark Moon. One of the currently proposed films that will explore the concept that missions to the moon did not stop after Apollo 17, and uses found footage to make the case for a black ops mission to the moon to explore previously classified discoveries.

Warner Bros. apparently had some reservations about the film as it’s so close in concept to Timur Bekmambetov‘s recently announced film Apollo 18 which we reported on earlier, so much so that The Brothers Warner have now dropped Dark Moon. THR is now reporting that Dark Castle Entertainment is in negotiations to pick up the project and Akiva Goldsman and his production company Weed Road Productions are still attached to the film.

Dark Moon is slated to hit theaters in 2013.