Julius
Avery will director Overlord, a supernatural thriller set against
D-Day’s Normandy invasion
Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot have today found a helmer for
their upcoming WWII supernatural thriller
Overlord. Variety reports that Julius Avery, best
known for directing the A24 thriller
Son of a Gun,
will direct the film, based on an original idea by
The
Hunger Games screenwriter Billy Ray and Bad Robot’s own
J.J. Abrams. Ray is providing the screenplay, which has been in the
planning stages for nearly a decade. Most recently,
The
Revenant scribe Mark L. Smith did a script polish.
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Overlord, which will be produced by Abrams, is
said to follow two paratroopers who, after being shot down over
Normandy in the midst of the D-Day invasion, discover that a
sinister Nazi experiment has given rise to an additional,
supernatural evil.
According to today’s report in the trade, meetings are already
underway in Hollywood to cast
Overlord‘s two
leads.
Prior to production on
Overlord, Avery is set to
direct
The King of LA, Scott Free Productions‘
true tale of DEA corruption.
Last year,
Bad Robot Productions released both
10 Cloverfield Lane and
Star Trek
Beyond through Paramount. The former, directed by Dan
Trachtenberg, stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John
Gallagher Jr. and brought in more than $100 million at the
worldwide box office. The latter, the third entry in the rebooted
big screen
Star Trek timeline, was directed by
Justin Lin and pulled in more than $343 million worldwide.
Does
Overlord sound like a project that you’ll
want to check out on the big screen? Who would you like to see cast
as the film’s two leads? Share your thoughts in the comments below
and check back for updates on
Overlord as they
become available.
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