MUMBAI: The Weinstein Co. has announced its decision to make Apollo 18, a sci-fi thriller that would be directed by Timur Bekmambetov, the Wanted director.

Set to be shot documentary style, the film unearths lost footage from Apollo 18's undocumented and covert mission to the moon, revealing disturbing new evidence of other life forms.

The film that has screenplay by Brian Miller would be produced by Bekmambetov and Michele Wolkoff, president of development for Bekmambetov Projects Ltd. (BPL).

The film is slated to begin production this December and would be released in March next year.

Bekmambetov's "found footage" movie deal comes a week after Heat Vision revealed that disaster-movie maestro Roland Emmerich was working on his own secret "found footage" film.