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EXCLUSIVE: Apple has greenlighted Liminal, a sci-fi action-thriller from head Louis Leterrier (Fast X) that will prima Academy Award nominee Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) and Emmy victor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Wonder Man).
Liminal is based connected nan AWA schematic caller Telepaths by Eisner Award-winner J. Michael Straczynski, Steve Epting and Brian Reber. While nan crippled of nan characteristic return is being kept nether wraps, nan root worldly takes spot successful a world wherever a tenth of nan organization abruptly summation telepathic powers arsenic a consequence of electromagnetic disturbance. Subsequently, newly-telepathic Boston constabulary find themselves contending pinch a faction, led by a wrongly convicted prisoner, who are trying to flight a world successful which their powers will make them targets.
Hailing from Apple Studios, Liminal is written by Justin Rhodes (Terminator: Dark Fate). Zach Studin will nutrient for AWA Studios, alongside Kevin Walsh for The Walsh Company, via his wide woody pinch Apple Studios. Ray Angelic will exec nutrient alongside Straczynski, Epting, and Reber, pinch Patrick McNamara co-producing for The Walsh Company alongside Juliet Kirby.
Most precocious seen starring successful Ron Howard’s endurance thriller Eden, Benjamin Caron’s Netflix crime thriller Night Always Comes, which she besides produced, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Kirby’s upcoming slate besides includes Ruins, a Miramax adjustment of nan caller by Amy Taylor, wherever she’ll nutrient and prima other Sebastian Stan. She is represented by CAA, Hamilton Hodell, Linden Entertainment, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Abdul-Mateen II is having a banner year, coming disconnected rave reviews for Marvel’s Wonder Man, pinch his Man connected Fire series coming up for merchandise connected Netflix connected April 30. Upcoming, he’ll besides beryllium seen starring other Mark Wahlberg successful Elegant Bratton’s crime thriller By Any Means. He is repped by 1V1 Entertainment, WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett and Kole.
Leterrier is an Emmy-winning French filmmaker known for directing Fast X, Netflix bid Lupin and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Now You See Me, and more. Most recently, he directed 11817, a sci-fi scary movie for Netflix starring Greta Lee and Wagner Moura. Also attached to nonstop Fast Forever, nan last main installment successful nan Fast & Furious franchise, he is represented by A.J. Brandenstein and Robert Offer of Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.
Rhodes is repped by Lit Entertainment Group, CAA, and Felker Toczek Suddleson.
