Overview
- Powell is negotiating to star in the feature and to produce through his Barnstorm banner with Dan Cohen.
- Amazon MGM Studios has set up the project with United Artists’ Scott Stuber, whose recent packages at the studio include Michael Mann’s Heat 2.
- Sam Esmail is writing and directing the original sci‑fi film, with story details being kept under wraps.
- Producers attached include Stuber and Nick Nesbitt for UA and Esmail and Chad Hamilton for Esmail Corp.
- If Powell’s deal is finalized, the film is expected to be a priority, though his work on Chad Powers season two and an untitled Judd Apatow comedy indicates it would not be his immediate next shoot.