Netflix has a come out on top in a fierce bidding war that will see Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington reunite for the first time since 1993’s The Pelican Brief.
The streaming giant has landed Leave the World Behind, an upcoming novel by Rumaan Alam, with Sam Esmail, the creator of Mr.
Robot and Homecoming, set to write the adaptation and direct it. Roberts and Washington are attached to star. The novel will be published this fall by HarperCollins imprint Ecco.
It follows a husband and wife as they head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation with their teenage son and daughter.
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