Tessa Thompson & Joseph Gordon-Levitt Attached To Star In Flying Lotus’ Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Ash’; Neill Blomkamp To Exec Produce Pic Launching Sales At TIFF
deadline.comTessa Thompson (Westworld) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Super Pumped) are are attached to star in the sci-fi thriller Ash, which the Grammy-winning musician and filmmaker Flying Lotus — otherwise known as Steven Ellison — will direct as his sophomore feature, as we first reported in January.
Neill Blomkamp (District 9) has since then come aboard to exec produce the pic, which its financier XYZ Films will rep for worldwide sales at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.While at TIFF to meet with key buyers for Ash, Flying Lotus will appear in support of his segment of V/H/S/99, which is having its world premiere in the Midnight section of the festival.The new film, for which the multi-hyphenate will also compose an original score, watches as a woman (Thompson) wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed, and must then decide if she can trust the man (Gordon-Levitt) sent to rescue her.
But as their investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events, he begins to wonder how innocent she really is.Jonni Remmler wrote the original screenplay for the film, looking to go into production in New Zealand next year.
It is Flying Lotus’ follow-up to the Sundance-premiering body horror anthology, Kuso. XYZ Films and GFC Films will produce, with Blomkamp exec producing alongside Echo Lake Entertainment.
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