By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2011 11:00 am EST

Meanwhile, the Brian Miller story picked up by Paramount is “a big idea with a budget under $30m,” per Deadline. That definitely fits into the low to mid-budget paradigm, and the speed with which this was picked up suggests that Paramount is pretty happy with Apollo 18, which went into production very fast after producer Timur Bekmabetov sparked to Brian Miller’s script.