Sony Acquires Sci-Fi Thriller Novel Influx + Lands Bloodshot Director!
Despite the global lockdown of theaters, Hollywood is trying to carry on with business as usual at the end of the day. Read more on Sony Acquires Influx…
CelebNMovies247.com reports that Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to Daniel Suarez’s 2014 sci-fi novel Influx.
We have learned that Director David S.F. Wilson, who was behind this year’s Vin Diesel film Bloodshot, will be helming the project.
The rights to the novel were sold based on a successful pitch to Sony. Zak Olkwicz will be adapting the screenplay for the movie from the novel, with Escape Artist’s Todd Black, Steve Tisch, Jason Blumenthal, and Tony Shaw producing the feature. Wilson and Olkewicz are repped by 3 Arts Entertainment. Suarez is repped by ICM Partners.
Influx tells the tale of a future dystopian society. A shadowy branch of the government known as the Bureau of Technology Control keeps an eye on paradigm-shifting technological progress and keeps major new inventions out of the hands of the common public in order to avoid social upheaval. Instead, major new inventions are reserved for the benefit of a select few among the society’s circle of elites.
Enter physicist Jon Grady, whose team has discovered a revolutionary new method of reflecting gravity through the use of a special device. After the Bureau offers Grady the chance to join them, he refuses and is thrown into a high-tech prison along with other rebel thinkers of his time. Now Grady and his fellow prisoners must find a way to escape, and expose the machinations of the Bureau before time runs out. The novel is a mystery-thriller with a strong action core that deals with themes of government overreach.
At this time director David S.F. Wilson has proved that he is adept at telling a sci-fi action with Bloodshot, but due to the Coronavirus the movie had to fnd an alternate way since theaters closed.
It remains to be seen if the amount of profit Bloodshot will eventually make will be deemed enough to warrant sequels. Meanwhile, rumors are already doing the rounds that another Valiant Comics character, X-O Manowar will also be making his film debut, possibly played by John Cena.
