Talk about a guy who’s not afraid of a change in genre. In an interesting feature film choice, director Cary Fukunaga will be following up his last directorial outing of Jane Eyre with Universal’s sci-fi film, Spaceless. Fukunaga debuted onto the film scene with an award-winning immigration drama called Sin Nombre. Choosing period drama Jane Eyre after that seems like a left turn but Fukunaga does not seem afraid to switch things up.

THR reported that Fukunaga will be directing Spaceless with Gore Verbinski producing through his company BlindWink Productions and Jeff Vintar. Vintar had written the original spec script to the project. Fukunaga is to rewrite the screenplay for the film.

Check out a synopsis to Spaceless:

The story centres on an assassin who wakes up inside a spacesuit tumbling helplessly through space, with a computer designed to keep him company until his air runs out. He must try to solve the mystery of his death, which began when he broke into an orbiting space station to carry out a hit. The man, however, begins to question his reality, unsure if he is succumbing to madness or in an artificially created environment.

This description sure recalls memories of the bounty hunter character (Richard Brooks) in Joss Whedon’s Firefly episode “Objects in Space” where Captain Mal (Nathan Fillion) has left Jubal Early out there floating in space doesn’t it?