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Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski is filling up his dance card after 2010 with the announcement that he's developing his own original science fiction/action movie called Oblivion. In a story published in today's Hollywood Reporter, the story comes out that when Kosinski first moved to L.A. four years ago he hatched the idea of Oblivion as a way he could kick-start his directing career.

"I was looking to make a science fiction film that I could do on a budget," Kosinski said in the pages of the Reporter. "It's grown since then, but it's intended to be a very spare science fiction film, with a small cast but big ideas and big landscapes."

Eventually he met up with Radical Pictures and found out that they had a comic book line. Kosinski then started developing Oblivion as a novel with 40 painted images interspersed within its pages. He's still planning on publishing the book but now Radical is developing Kosinski's property as a feature film too with the director attached to helm the Oblivion movie.

Oblivion's main character is a court-martialed soldier exiled to a faraway planet. The fighter makes use of his time by hunting down the members of the planet's native race, but when a second human arrives new facts are uncovered about the planet and their reasons for killing its aliens.

Benjamin Button director David Fincher will be a producer on the Oblivion flick along with David Morrison, Barry Levine and Kosinski.

THR did a one-on-one with Kosinski about Oblivion where he goes into greater detail about the show's premise and how he got it started,