Morten Tyldum is hoping to quickly turn his Oscar nomination for The Imitation Game into new opportunities. The Norwegian director may have already found his second English-language film in Passengers.
Tyldum is currently in talks to helm the long-gestating project, Deadline confirmed. It will be his first big studio project, since the project is now set up at Sony.
Passengers has been in the works for a long time and was once supposed to star Keanu Reeves and Rachel McAdams. It was written by Prometheus’ Jon Spaihts and the script was picked up by The Weinstein Company in May 2013, with Reese Witherspoon attached. Witherspoon left and so did McAdams. At that point, TWC dropped it, giving Sony the opportunity to snap it up.
The plot centers on a long distance space trip and the male lead wakes up 90 years too early. He falls in love with another passenger, whose sleeping chamber also malfunctioned.
Sony production president Michael De Luca is overseeing it. The producers are Neal Moritz and Ori Marmur of Original Films; Stuart Media’s Michael Maher; and Company Films’ Stephen Hamel.
Tyldum’s The Imitation Game was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Director, Best Picture and Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch. Coincidentally, Cumberbatch will star in Marvel’s Doctor Strange, which Spaihts is writing.
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