Adapted by Don McKellar from Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramagos acclaimed novel, the story chronicles an epidemic of blindness that sweeps through an unnamed contemporary city and pushes society to the brink of breakdown.
It may just be the case that Craig has loaded himself up with so many projects, that one of them had to go. He's got no less than 5 movies coming out over the next 18 months including a Bond movie, a big fantasy epic and a big sci-fi movie. Now that's what you call a "movie star". source - cinematical