Higher Ground Boards Sam Esmail’s Netflix Pic ‘Leave The World Behind’ Starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke & Myha’la Herrold
deadline.comBarack and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground has come aboard Sam Esmail’s upcoming film Leave The World Behind for Netflix.The film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke and Myha’la Herrold adapts Rumaan Alam’s acclaimed third novel of the same name, watching as a family vacation on Long Island is interrupted by two strangers bearing news of a mysterious blackout.
As the threat grows more imminent, both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis, all while grappling with their own place in this collapsing world.Upon its publication in October of 2020, Leave the World Behind was listed as one of Barack Obama’s Summer Favorites, also being named a Read with Jenna Today Show Pick, a finalist for the 2020 National Book Awards, and Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Time, Esquire and Elle, among other outlets.
Esmail adapted the screenplay and is producing with Chad Hamilton through Esmail Corp, alongside Roberts, Lisa Gillan, and Marisa Yeres Gill for Red Om Films.
Higher Ground’s Tonia Davis will exec produce alongside Alam, Danny Stillman and Esmail Corp’s Nick Krishnamurthy.New and returning series on broadcast, cable and streamingSeries that made it or didn’t make it in 2020-21Broadcast networks’ fall lineups and schedules
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