The rights to Robert Heinlein’s classic story, Have Space Suit, Will Travel, have been granted to Harry Kloor’s Jupiter 9 Prods by the Heinlein estate. Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Peter McHugh are attached as producers. Kloor, who founded Jupiter 9 to promote science literacy, obtained the film rights after presenting a finished script to the Heinlein estate.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118021311.html?categoryId=2431&cs=1
Have Space Suit, Will Travel was nominated for the Hugo Award in 1959
Synopsis:
SKYJACKED!
One minute Kip Russell is walking around his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the moon – the next he is the captive of a space pirate and on his way to the very place he had been dreaming of. At first, the events are so unreal he thinks he might be having a nightmare… but when he discovers other prisoners aboard the spaceship he knows the ordeal is all too real. Kip and his fellow abductees, the daughter of a world-renowned scientist and a beautiful creature from an alien planet, have been skyjacked by a monstrous extraterrestrial who is flying them to the moon on a journey toward a fate worse than death….
You can read the first chapter here:
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