EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Garner (The Final Factor He Advised Me) is hooked up to star in Zygote (wt), a sci-fi drama based mostly on a brief story by Alyssa Hill, who’s on board to adapt the screenplay.
Hailing from Pinky Promise (The Final Showgirl, Eleanor the Nice) and Linden Productions (Is God Is, Household Change), the movie heart on Parisa (Garner), an elite disaster negotiator who is shipped 254 miles from Earth as a response to hostages on the Worldwide House Station. Because of the surprising nature of the expedition, Parisa shortly realizes this may very well be her closing mission, as she is compelled to confront the bounds of her life’s work alongside her personal mortality.
Kara Durrett and Jessamine Burgum of Pinky Promise will produce alongside Riva Marker and Deanna Barillari of Linden Productions. Mia Samuels of Linden will oversee the challenge after sealing the deal for rights to the movie, in tandem with Barillari. The director’s chair stays open.
Garner is coming off of success with The Final Factor He Advised Me, Apple’s hit sequence adaptation of the New York Instances bestseller by Laura Dave. She exec produces and stars within the sequence, which has wrapped manufacturing on a second season after launching as a restricted sequence. Garner has additionally just lately led the Netflix household comedies Household Change (produced by Linden Productions) and Sure Day, with the latter garnering the streamer’s greatest Youngsters & Household movie launch to this point. Subsequent up, she’s set to star in and exec produce Peacock sequence The 5-Star Weekend. Garner is represented by Linden Leisure, CAA, and attorneys Jason Sloane and Harris Hartman of Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern.
Presently, Hill is in manufacturing on her unique script, The Housewife, a movie directed by Ben Shirian and starring Naomi Watts, Tye Sheridan, and Michael Imperioli. Different initiatives embrace My Pretty Spouse for Amazon MGM starring Nicole Kidman; her adaptation of Alone for New Line; Eleutheria for Participant; and League of Wives which Reese Witherspoon’s Good day Sunshine is producing. Hill is repped by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone Leisure and Hansen, Jacobson.
Run by founders Nicole King and Stacy O’Neil alongside Accomplice JoAnne Colonna and CEO of Manufacturing Marker, Linden is at present in put up on Aleshea Harris’ directorial debut Is God Is, for Amazon MGM’s Orion Photos. Latest initiatives embrace HBO’s Peabody Award winner Actuality starring Sydney Sweeney; Household Change; and the Working Title/Peacock vacation movie, Genie, starring Melissa McCarthy.
Coming off an award-winning run for The Final Showgirl, starring Pamela Anderson, Pinky Promise is behind Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor the Nice, starring June Squibb and Chiwetel Ejiofor, which is premiering at Cannes, in addition to the upcoming I Don’t Perceive You with Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells, a horror comedy developing for launch in June. The corporate is based by CEO Jessamine Burgum, who runs it with President and Head of Movie Kara Durrett.
