Will Smith, Sony And Escape Artists Team On Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Resistor’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: With Sony Pictures‘ Bad Boys: Ride or Die passing the $100 million domestic box office mark this past weekend, the studio and Will Smith are already looking to the future as he is attached to star in Sony’s Resistor.
Based on the book Influx by bestselling author Daniel Suarez, the first draft of the script was written by Zak Olkewicz, with Eric Singer penning the latest draft.
The pic will be produced Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Tony Shaw of Escape Artists, which has been developing the project for some time with along with Smith and Jon Mone through Westbrook, with Heather Washington exec producing.
Dave Wilson is also producing. While plot details are under wraps, the 2014 novel is a sci-fi thriller that follows physicist Jon Grady and his team who have discovered a device that can reflect gravity — a triumph that will revolutionize the field of physics and change the future.
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