Netflix Lands De-Aging Father-Daughter Tale ‘Backwards’ For Shawn Levy To Direct; 21 Laps & Safehouse Producing
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Netflix won a 6-way bidding battle for the rights to turn the short story Backwards into a feature.
Free Guy helmer Shawn Levy is attached to direct. He and Dan Cohen will produce for 21 Laps, and Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell will produce for Safehouse.The story story is written by mother-son team Julianna Baggott and Finneas Scott.
In the Benjamin Button-esque tale, a dying father chooses a method to extend his life that involves reverse aging in a de-aging facility.
Appointed to be his caretaker is his estrange daughter. As the years peel off, they are able to get to the core of where they went wrong as the father relives the memory of different portions of his life, experiences which made him an unlikeable person.Baggott will be executive producer along with Brendan Deneen and Josh Stanton for Blackstone Publishing.
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