Sony & Mandalay Pictures Team On Sci-Fi ‘Omega’ With ‘Mortal Kombat’ Filmmaker Simon McQuoid Directing Blair Butler Script
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Sony is in development on sci-fi movie Omega, which Mortal Kombat filmmaker Simon McQuoid is attached to direct.Jason Michael Berman is producing for Mandalay Pictures and Jordan Moldo is executive producing for the same company.
We understand Peter Kang and Alex Rosario are overseeing for Columbia Pictures/Sony.Set in the sparse landscapes of rural Texas, we hear the story will follow a downtrodden young woman who gets more than she bargained for when she helps a mysterious stranger: a reality-warping power that thrusts her into a dark underworld with ancient origins.
As she finds herself hunted by a cabal of hitmen she must try to master her burgeoning skills and discover who she really is.U.S.
writer, stand-up and presenter Blair Butler is aboard for the script (first pass was by David M. Crabtree) after she most wrote movies Polaroid and Hell Fest and was a producer on the Hulu/Marvel series Hellstrom.
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