Paramount Pictures is developing BadAsstronauts, a feature adaptation of Grady Hendrix‘s 2022 science fiction novella, Deadline reports.

Hendrix will executive produce the project, with Todd Garner (Mortal Kombat, Haunt) and Adam Goldworm (The Last Witch Hunter, “Masters of Horror”) producing.

The novella is described as a blue-collar space odyssey about a washed-up astrophysicist who decides, against all logic and common sense, to build a homemade rocket and launch it into orbit to rescue his cousin who’s stranded in space.

It’s a story of underdogs rediscovering purpose, family, and pride...