Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.Riz Ahmed was in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but his latest movie, Amazon Studios’ Encounter, isn’t that kind of sci-fi movie.
Encounter is about an alien invasion, but one that occurs on present day Earth, to a normal family, and raises additional questions of paranoia.Ahmed plays Malik, a Marine veteran who believes alien insects are possessing human beings for a takeover.
Malik takes his two sons, Jay (Lucien-River Chauhan) and Bobby (Aditya Geddada), away from their mother (Janina Gavankar) and stepfather (Misha Collins).On the road, Malik tries to keep his sons safe from people who have already been taken over by the insects.
However, his ex-wife reports him to the authorities, and Malik’s parole officer Hattie (Octavia Spencer) gets involved trying to get him to surrender.
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