Indie Helmer Chris Gorak Moves into His ‘Darkest Hour’

Right at Your Door, Chris Gorak’s 2006 low budget debut was essentially his calling card, however, the Sundance film got picked up, but it took a while for Hollywood to place the director in the rolodex. Looks like someone at Regency did just that.

Deadline.com reports that Gorak will direct The Darkest Hour with the support of producer Timur Bekmambetov. Shooting will take place this June in Mother Russia – Bekmambetov has the same set up as Robert Rodriguez might have in Austin.

Regency acquired the spec script by Leslie Bohem (Real Steel) and newbie scribe M.T. Ahern back in 2007, and surprisingly, 20th Century Fox won’t be distributing, instead Summit is on board and will be looking at this as possible tentpole pic for 2011.

This puts a twist on a classic sci-fi theme and is described as a 28 Days-like thriller about a group of kids struggling to survive in Russia after an alien invasion. My only question is: how is it that some Americans will end up in the country?