Shawn Levy is ready to direct the unique sci-fi film “Somewhere Out There” for Netflix.
The streamer picked up the spec script written by Max Taxe in a bidding warfare. Levy can even produce the movie underneath his 21 Laps banner together with the corporate’s Dan Levine.
The story falls within the emotional vein of “Arrival” and “The Adam Project,” and issues a grieving father who, after shedding his spouse, sends a message out into the celebrities…and one thing on the market begins to speak again.
Levy has not too long ago wrapped manufacturing on “Star Wars: Starfighter” starring Ryan Gosling, Amy Adams, Matt Smith, Mia Goth and Aaron Pierre. The movie will hit theaters on Might 28, 2027.
Levy’s initiatives have included “Stranger Things” and “All the Light We Cannot See.”
The Levy-directed movie “Deadpool & Wolverine” generated $1.086 billion on the world field workplace and is the best grossing R-rated film in historical past.
Taxe teamed with 21 Laps beforehand on his screenplay “Ripple,” by which Jack Quaid is hooked up to star. His credit additionally embrace “Moonshot,” which starred Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse for HBO Max.
21 Laps is about to wrap manufacturing on each the Netflix comedy “One Attempt Remaining,” directed by Kay Cannon and starring Jennifer Garner and John Cena, in addition to on Netflix’s untitled hockey sequence starring Michelle Monaghan.
Levy and 21 Laps are repped by WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Taxe is repped by UTA, Leisure 360 and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
The challenge was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
