Jeremy Strong has found his next role in Jonas Salk, the famed virologist that developed the widely-used polio vaccine. Strong will play the famed researcher in the feature Splendid Solution from Bron Studios and 21 Laps.
The project is based on Jeffrey Kluger’s New York Times best-selling novel of the same name, which follows Salk as he begins his polio research and his eventual discovery of a vaccine that he purposefully did not patent and was then used for decades to innoculate against the virus.
Gillian Weeks will pen the screenplay. Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce on behalf of 21 Laps, along with Aaron L. Gilbert, who will produce on behalf of Bron.
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