Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, LaKeith Stanfield to star in sci-fi thriller Foe

Little Women star Saoirse Ronan, Judas and the Black Messiah star LaKeith Stanfield and Normal People breakout Paul Mescal are teaming up for Foe, a sci-fi thriller characteristic. Based on Iain Reid’s bestselling novel, Lion director Garth Davis will helm the movie from a script he wrote with the creator.

According to Deadline, Foe is a taut, sensual, psychological mind-bender set in the close to future the place company energy and environmental decay are ravaging the planet. Junior (Mescal) and Hen (Ronan) are a younger couple married seven years and dwelling a solitary life on their remoted farm. One evening, a stranger named Terrance (Stanfield) knocks on their door, bringing information that throws their lives into turmoil: Junior has been randomly chosen to journey to a big, experimental house station orbiting Earth.

The most uncommon half? Arrangements have already been made in order that when he leaves, Hen received’t have an opportunity to miss him, as a result of she received’t be left alone. Hen could have acquainted firm that pushes her to make a life-changing choice.

Davis, who at all times wished to make a sci-fi characteristic, stated the novel was an unputdownable learn for him. “It’s extremely suspenseful, very shifting and handled sci-fi in a most grounded approach that spoke to the place we're heading as a society, with a whole lot of the questions all of us have, explored in a profound approach.

“And the love story just broke my heart, this story of self-determination, fighting for the things that are most precious in our lives, and reminding audiences that this time we have here is precious and the way we treat each other is the way we need to be treating the planet. Foe was just a bull’s-eye, for me,” the director stated.

Producers are Kerry Kohansky-Roberts of Anonymous Content, Davis via his I Am That banner, and See-Saw Films’ Emile Sherman and Iain Canning. Reid and Samantha Lang are the chief producers and the movie is an Anonymous Content Studios manufacturing. Shooting is scheduled to start in January in Australia.