Last year, Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski announced that he was going to direct an original film that he devised called Oblivion. The sci-fi epic follows an exiled soldier on a desolate planet, charged with exterminating a primitive alien race. His understanding of the mission changes when he encounters another visitor to the world.

Back in January of this year Kosinski said,

“‘Oblivion’ is steaming ahead, We’re hoping to have a preview of the illustrated novel — it’s not a comic book — by this year’s Comic-Con. It’s going to be a wide-format, hardcover novel with about 40 or 50 fully illustrated plates in it. We’re hoping to also get the script written for the movie in the near future as well.”

Now, THR is reporting that Walt Disney Pictures has acquired the film rights to Oblivion. Kosinski has been developing the project with Radical, and he will direct the film and produce with Barry Levine, the head of Radical Publishing.

You can check out the first chapter of the graphic novel on-which the film will be based, thanks to AICN. Check it out by clicking the cover below!

Oblivion is slated to hit theaters in 2012.