Jodie Foster has announced that she is planning to direct a new science fiction film once work on her current projects is completed. Having served as director on upcoming drama The Beaver, Foster claimed that she is interested in moving into a different genre for her next film. "There's a family element to it, but it's much more a genre movie," Foster told the Los Angeles Times, regarding the currently-untitled project. "I'd like to do that because that's a world I live in as an actor but I've never really gone to as a director," she added, referring to her appearance in the 1997 science fiction drama Contact. Foster also said that despite
