Disney buys 'Tron' helmer's 'Oblivion'

Disney has secured the movie rights to Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski's illustrated novel Oblivion, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Kosinski's unpublished Radical book centres on a future Earth where people live above the clouds and alien scavengers reside on the surface below. The story's protagonist is a surface drone repairman who stumbles upon a beautiful woman in a crashed spacecraft.

Other studios were interested in picking up Oblivion, but Disney production president Sean Bailey splashed out a seven-figure sum to extend his working relationship with Kosinski, who has spent the last three years guiding the Tron sequel.

Oblivion will hit stores this autumn, while Tron Legacy is due to hit 3D, IMAX and conventional cinemas in December.

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