Last month, we brought you a report about Walt Disney Pictures acquiring 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.

Now, Deadline reports that Walt Disney Pictures has hired Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) to adapt the graphic novel for the big-screen. Oblivion is set on a future Earth that has been polluted to the point of inhabitability. What’s left of the human race lives above the clouds, safe from alien scavengers that dwell in the ruins of a once thriving race. The story revolves around a repairman named Jak who finds himself on a life-altering adventure after he discovers a mysterious woman in a crashed pod.

Oblivion was created by Joseph Kosinski, written by Arvid Nelson & Andree Wallin and is slated to hit theaters in 2012.