Fincher's 'Rendezvous' "not going to happen"

Director David Fincher has admitted that his science fiction film Rendezvous With Rama is "not going to happen".

Morgan Freeman, who worked with Fincher on Se7en, has been attached to star in the film for almost a decade.

However, Fincher told First Showing that Freeman's health problems were a contributing factor in the film's demise.

Fincher said: "It looks like it's not going to happen. There's no script and as you know, [Morgan Freeman's] not in the best of health right now. We've been trying to do it but it's probably not going to happen."

Based on Arthur C. Clarke's (2001: A Space Odyssey) 1972 novel, Rendezvous With Rama details man's first contact with alien life when a 50km long cylindrical craft appears near Earth.