After directing her sixth feature Miranda’s Victim, The Runner filmmaker Michelle Danner has set the sci-fi action-thriller Helios as her next directorial outing.

Helios, a Centerboro production based on a script by Patricia A. Beninati, Michael K. Anderson, and Bernard Moore, is set in the year 2030 and follows the crew of the spaceship Helios on an urgent mission to the International Space Station. When a massive solar flare from an incoming cataclysmic solar storm hits the station on a collision course with Earth, it is up to astronomer and former NASA Astronaut, Jess Denver, and Air Force Colonel Sam Adler to team up and save humanity.

“We are so thrilled to work with Michelle Danner, who is a brilliant director, and innovative writer. We are incredibly excited to have Michelle incorporate her signature cinematic influence and vision into thought provoking storytelling, which will deliver big action,” said Centerboro Productions’ President, Beninati. “The Helios movie demonstrates the true solutions available to humanity in a time of a space weather crisis and is attractive to a global audience, that will be a fun thrill ride popcorn movie.”

Danner also writes: “I’m excited to tell the story of Helios. It’s a unique story, different from any other sci-fi disaster movie I’ve seen in that its focus is on how human beings react in the face of destruction, both tearing themselves apart and pulling themselves together. Above anything else, what affected me was this genuine and heartfelt portrayal of humanity in the most extreme of circumstances.”

Michelle Danner’s involvement with Helios was first reported by Deadline. Filming is set to begin later this year.