, the 2017 follow-up book by The Martian author Andy Weir, is following its big brother to the big screen. Today we learned that Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who is writing the new Captain Marvel movie, will write the screenplay for a film adaptation of Artemis.

Weir's second book takes place on the moon rather than the Red Planet. The novel follows lunar native Jazz Bashara on a caper that involves blowing up drones, high-level corruption, and other fun off-planet activities.

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Artemis wasn't as well received as Weir's first novel, but like , much of its charm lies is the world-building that hews as closely as possible to scientific fact. We interviewed Weir after the book's publication about how a realistic moon city could actually come to be. The author put a lot of background work into imaging a working tourism economy that would support a lunar settlement like the one seen in Artemis. The bevy of scientific detail about life on the moon is interesting, too.

The plot and dialogue work left something to be desired. Artemis trades in a wisecracking male astronaut narrator for a wisecracking young woman who talks a little too much like a middle-aged man. In this case, maybe a little Hollywood magic could sand out some of the flaws in the book and turn it into an enjoyable cinematic romp .



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Additional info about the film adaptation of Artemis—director, stars, release date—is TBD. We'll keep you posted.

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