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An asteroid miner who, after crash-landing on an alien planet, must make his way across the harsh terrain, running out of oxygen, hunted by strange creatures, to the only other survivor: a woman who is trapped in her escape pod.
Soon we’ll be releasing the 2016 Hit List, our compilation of the best year’s best spec scripts as voted on by industry professionals. In preparation for its release, we’re taking a look back at the 2013 Hit List writers — where they’ve been, and where they are today.
After heating up the spec market and garnering attention from studios like Sony and Fox, Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi spec Moonfall has landed at Universal Pictures. 
When an asteroid hits the moon, an unlikely band of misfits must come together to travel to the moon and harness the alien technology left behind to stop it from colliding with the earth.
With the summer blockbuster season heating up and Independence Day: Resurgence going wide later this month, two similarly titled alien invasion specs have hit the market in an attempt to draw some of the residual heat surrounding the belated sequel to the 1996 hit.
