Amazon Studios is closing in on global rights for the film adaptation of Iain Reid’s 2018 science-fiction novel “Foe” starring Saoirse Ronan, LaKeith Stanfield and Paul Mescal.
“Lion” helmer Garth Davis directs the project and co-wrote the script with Reid. The sensual, psychological mind-bender is set in a near-future where corporate power and environmental decay are ravaging the planet.
Mescal and Ronan play a young married couple living a solitary life on their isolated farm. One night, a stranger (Stanfield) knocks on their door bringing news that throws their lives into turmoil – the husband has been randomly selected to travel to a large, experimental space station orbiting Earth for two years.
The odd part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, the wife won’t have a chance to miss him, because she won’t be left alone as an apparent biomechanical duplicate of the husband will be there.
Davis, Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning will produce and filming kicks off in January in Australia. Davis, who also helmed episodes of “Top of the Lake” and “Mary Magdalene,” remains slated to direct a third “TRON” film for Disney.
Source: Variety
