Louis Leterrier (Quick X) will direct and produce 11817, a sci-fi horror movie scripted by Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Mendacity) that’s being offered to patrons at Cannes by Rocket Science.
The movie watches as inexplicable forces entice a household of 4 inside their home indefinitely. As each fashionable luxuries and life or dying necessities start to expire, the household should learn to be resourceful to outlive and outsmart who — or what — is retaining them trapped…
Casting is at present underway on the pic to be produced by Leterrier’s Carrousel Studios, Rocket Science, Thank You Studios, Chernin Leisure (A North Highway Firm) and three Arts Leisure. Producers embody Leterrier, Thomas Benski and Omar Sy for Carrousel Studios, Lars Sylvest for Thank You Studios, Kori Adelson for Chernin Leisure, Oly Obst of three Arts Leisure, Thorsten Schumacher for Rocket Science, and Joe Neurauter. Cecile Gaget is exec producing for Carrousel Studios. Along with dealing with overseas gross sales, Rocket Science will totally finance the mission, with CAA Media Finance to rep home rights.
“Directing initiatives the place the viewers will get behind the characters has all the time been my focus. Nonetheless complicated, flawed, heroic, we establish with them as we dwell by their journey,” stated Leterrier. “It’s what excites me about 11817‘s wholly unique idea and the household on the coronary heart of our story. That is an expertise that film audiences received’t overlook.”
No stranger to tentpoles, Leterrier has helmed titles like Quick X, Now You See Me, The Transporter, The Unbelievable Hulk, Conflict of the Titans and The Takedown. On the TV facet, he produced and directed Netflix’s international hit Lupin, additionally helming the streamer’s Emmy-nominated present The Darkish Crystal: Age of Resistance. At present, he’s additionally connected to direct the ultimate movie within the Quick & Livid franchise, which stays in improvement.
This 12 months, Rocket Science’s Cannes slate additionally consists of Ali Abbasi’s buzzy Donald Trump pic The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Robust and Maria Bakalova, in addition to Cliffhanger.
Leterrier is repped by CAA, Leisure 360/LBI, Sloan Supply Weber & Dern, and UBBA in France; Robinson by CAA, 3 Arts, and Ziffren Brittenham.