MGM has released the trailer for “Lion” director Garth Davis’ new project, a film adaptation of Iain Reid’s 2018 science-fiction novel “Foe” starring Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre.
The sensual, psychological mind-bender is set in 2065 where corporate power and environmental decay are ravaging the planet.
Mescal and Ronan play a young married couple who farm a secluded piece of land that has been in his family for generations. Their quiet, solitary life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal.
The stranger (Pierre) reveals that the husband has been randomly selected to travel to a large, experimental space station orbiting Earth for two years.
The strange part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, the wife won’t have a chance to miss him as a biomechanical duplicate of the husband will be there.
Davis directed the project and co-wrote the script with Reid. Davis, Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning produce.
“Foe” will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival this Fall and will be released exclusively in cinemas by Amazon on October 6th.
