Twentieth Century Fox and Canal Plus have reached a deal to co-finance "Babylon A.D.," a big-budget futuristic thriller to be directed by Mathieu Kassovitz ("Gothika," "The Crimson Rivers") from his script reports Variety.
Inspired by the Maurice Dantec novel "Babylon Babies," the story is set in the near future and concerns genetic manipulation. In the book, a mercenary charged with delivering a young woman from Russia to Canada learns that she has been manipulated by a synthetic virus and what lies inside her could doom the human race.
Before he makes "Babylon," Kassovitz will act in the untitled drama Spielberg will direct this summer about the aftermath of the Munich Olympics. Kassovitz joins Eric Bana, Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush.
Canal Plus will distribute "Babylon" in Europe while Fox gets domestic and overseas territories outside the continent.
Thanks to 'Craig'.
