Cynthia Ervio and Michael Bay are to collaborate on a film adaptation of Saturation Level.
The 38-year-old actress has teamed up with the Transformers director, 60, for a movie model of writer Adrian Tchaikovsky’s 2024 sci-fi novel of the identical identify for Common Footage.
Erivo might be producing below her Edith’s Daughter banner alongside Solome Williams, whereas Bay and Brad Fuller will produce by way of Platinum Dunes.
Saturation Level is a gripping local weather thriller set in a future the place elements of Earth have change into so scorching and humid that human survival is sort of inconceivable.
When a mission goes into certainly one of these excessive zones, Dr. Jasmine Marks is tasked with main the high-stakes search and rescue effort.
However the deeper she ventures, the extra she realises the hazards are far better than anticipated – and her company employers could also be hiding the reality. To make issues worse, not all clever life within the zone is human.
Minnie Schedeen is ready to jot down the script for Saturation Level alongside Tchaikovsky, whereas Alex Ginno is because of govt produce for Platinum Dunes.
Erivo was final seen within the 2024 film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical Depraved, through which she starred as Elphaba.
Within the movie, Elphaba (Erivo) varieties an unlikely friendship with Glinda (Ariana Grande) and the pair journey to the Emerald Metropolis to satisfy with the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum), solely to find he’s hiding a darkish secret.
Erivo, Grande and Goldblum are set to reprise their respective roles within the upcoming sequel Depraved: For Good, which is able to adapt the second half of the Broadway musical.
Director Jon M. Chu lately teased Depraved: For Good would focus and broaden on the bond between Elphaba and Glinda.
He instructed Vainness Truthful: “I feel the meat of what Depraved is all about occurs in film two. To me, for this reason this story exists. That is the place our childhood goals collide with our grownup selves.”
The Loopy Wealthy Asians filmmaker added “the temperature is up” for Elphaba and Glinda, whose relationship is pushed to its breaking level because of the actions of the Wizard.
Chu mentioned: “Our coronary heart was damaged when Glinda can’t make the selection that we would like her to so badly on the finish of film one, and it feels empowering for Elphaba to fly away from society.
“In film two, we get to see the implications of these decisions. The temperature is up.”
Depraved: For Good can be set to introduce Dorothy Gale – famously portrayed by Judy Garland in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz – although Chu confused he had been “delicate” with the character.
Talking about Dorothy and her crew’s journey down the Yellow Brick Highway, he defined: “That intersection is the place that we have been first launched to Oz.
“We tread evenly, however attempt to make extra sense of the way it impacts our women and our characters than perhaps the present does.”
