EXCLUSIVE: Indie distributors Utopia and Sumerian have set an October 13th nationwide theatrical release for Divinity, the sci-fi thriller starring Stephen Dorff, Bella Thorne, Scott Bakula and more, which world premiered in the NEXT section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Competitors in its opening weekend at the box office will include Uni/Blumhouse’s The Exorcist: Believer, Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company’s inspirational drama Ordinary Angels with Hilary Swank and Alan Ritchson, and the Spanish animation Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow.
An immersive black-and-white title from writer-director Eddie Alcazar, which is presented and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, Divinity is set in an otherworldly human existence where scientist Sterling Pierce (Bakula) has dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, slowly creating the building blocks of a groundbreaking serum named “Divinity.” Jaxxon Pierce (Dorff), his son, now controls and manufactures his father’s once-benevolent dream, and society on this barren planet has been entirely perverted by the supremacy of the drug, whose true origins are shrouded in mystery.
Two mysterious brothers (Moises Arias and Jason Genao) then arrive with a plan to abduct the mogul, and with the help of a seductive woman named Nikita (Karrueche Tran), they will be set on a path hurtling toward true immortality.
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