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EXCLUSIVE: Ex Machina Studios and K5 International are breathing caller life into Alex Proyas‘ passion task Heaven, which K5 will beryllium pre-selling astatine nan upcoming Cannes market.
I, Robot, The Crow and Dark City filmmaker Proyas hasn’t directed a movie successful a decade, since The Gods Of Egypt, but Heaven joins Ex Machina’s “AI-enabled” slate, which is being sold by K5.
Australian writer-director Proyas has spent years processing nan film, which concerns a “desperate bureaucrat who escapes his failing life by entering a technologically perfected afterlife — only to observe that paradise is simply a cautiously constructed illusion pinch terrifying consequences.”
The acheronian satire, described arsenic being “in nan contented of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil“, will beryllium produced utilizing Ex Machina Studios’ proprietary AI. According to nan company, nan tech allows for “expansive worlds to beryllium realized astatine a responsible fund while preserving nan primacy of existent actors, human-authored narratives, and guild-aligned accumulation practices”.
Producer-distributor Icon was attached to nan long-gestating task immoderate years agone but is nary longer aboard and Proyas is now hoping that AI-assisted accumulation tin thief realise nan immersive imagination he has successful mind for nan film. Principal activity connected nan task will beryllium based successful LA and casting discussions are underway.
As we revealed earlier this year, Ex Machina is spearheaded by shaper Marco Weber (Igby Goes Down), filmmaker Martin Weisz (The Hills Have Eyes II) and Pluto TV co-founder and erstwhile Paramount streaming CEO Tom Ryan, employing tech from Sunnyvale, CA-based Utopai Studios. K5 has been trading projects for nan institution astatine nan past mates of awesome markets.
“I’m thrilled to beryllium partnering pinch Marco and nan Ex Machina squad to bring Heaven to nan screen. This is simply a existent passion task for me, and nan opportunity to recognize specified a visually bold and emotionally resonant communicative is enormously exciting,” said Proyas who astir precocious produced 2023 thriller Mercy Road starring Luke Bracey and Toby Jones.
“Alex and I person been wanting to activity together for a while, and Heaven is nan cleanable task for our collaboration. It combines his bonzer talent arsenic a world-builder and storyteller pinch Ex Machina’s precocious accumulation pipeline — and pinch our uncompromising committedness to nan director’s vision,” added Weber.
