Ubisoft’s free-roam sci-fi action-adventure game series Watch Dogs has received mixed reviews from critics and players alike. The game did have an interesting premise, but some felt it didn’t break out of the Ubisoft open-world formula enough to stand out among other games like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry.
It seems the potential of the series has been noticed by people outside of the gaming community as well. It’s common for popular franchises to get adapted into other media, and the same is happening with a live-action movie for Watch Dogs. But is Ubisoft taking on more than it can handle?
The Watch Dogs Movie will be Created by New Regency
A Watch Dogs adaptation may not be the best idea for Ubisoft currently.
Deadline was the first to report on this matter. The movie will reportedly feature Sophie Wilde, who debuted in A24’s Talk to Me...
It seems the potential of the series has been noticed by people outside of the gaming community as well. It’s common for popular franchises to get adapted into other media, and the same is happening with a live-action movie for Watch Dogs. But is Ubisoft taking on more than it can handle?
The Watch Dogs Movie will be Created by New Regency
A Watch Dogs adaptation may not be the best idea for Ubisoft currently.
Deadline was the first to report on this matter. The movie will reportedly feature Sophie Wilde, who debuted in A24’s Talk to Me...
- 3/12/2024
- by Sagar Nerala
- FandomWire
Talk To Me breakout star Sophie Wilde is set to appear in Watch Dogs, a long-in-gestation adaptation of Ubisoft’s hacking-based videogame series.
As such Hollywood films as Blackhat and Hackers have taught us, only the coolest and most photogenic people engage in cybercrime. The cool-and-trendy-hacker theme was continued in Watch Dogs, a series of sandbox action adventure videogames first published by Ubisoft in 2014.
Spawning a hit franchise comprising two sequels and counting, Watch Dogs sees high-tech outlaws cause all kinds of digital mischief in cities around the world, with each game taking in stealth, driving, fisticuffs, shooting and tinkering with electronic devices.
A film adaptation based on the series was first floated by Ubisoft Motion Pictures back in 2013, before the original game was even released. The division’s plans for a multitude of movies based on its games took something of a body blow, however, when 2016’s Assassin’s Creed,...
As such Hollywood films as Blackhat and Hackers have taught us, only the coolest and most photogenic people engage in cybercrime. The cool-and-trendy-hacker theme was continued in Watch Dogs, a series of sandbox action adventure videogames first published by Ubisoft in 2014.
Spawning a hit franchise comprising two sequels and counting, Watch Dogs sees high-tech outlaws cause all kinds of digital mischief in cities around the world, with each game taking in stealth, driving, fisticuffs, shooting and tinkering with electronic devices.
A film adaptation based on the series was first floated by Ubisoft Motion Pictures back in 2013, before the original game was even released. The division’s plans for a multitude of movies based on its games took something of a body blow, however, when 2016’s Assassin’s Creed,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Ryan Lambie
- Film Stories
As the trend of turning video games into movies gains momentum, it appears that Watch Dogs is gearing up to join the league. According to reports from Deadline, the Ubisoft video game Watch-Dogs is set to receive the live-action movie treatment.
Watch Dogs: Legion
Actress Sophie Wilde is in talks to star in the film. This live-action movie will be based on the hit Ubisoft video game and take place within the same universe we know from playing the game.
Sounds like a thrilling ride for fans! However, amidst this exciting news, some fans have a few concerns as well.
Live-Action Movie Adaptation of Watch Dogs in the Works
The popular video game Watch Dogs might be getting its own movie adaptation. According to a recent report, Ubisoft’s hacking adventure is being eyed for a live-action film. As per reports from Deadline, A24 horror hit Talk To Me actor...
Watch Dogs: Legion
Actress Sophie Wilde is in talks to star in the film. This live-action movie will be based on the hit Ubisoft video game and take place within the same universe we know from playing the game.
Sounds like a thrilling ride for fans! However, amidst this exciting news, some fans have a few concerns as well.
Live-Action Movie Adaptation of Watch Dogs in the Works
The popular video game Watch Dogs might be getting its own movie adaptation. According to a recent report, Ubisoft’s hacking adventure is being eyed for a live-action film. As per reports from Deadline, A24 horror hit Talk To Me actor...
- 3/9/2024
- by Prantik Prabal Roy
- FandomWire
The video game Watch Dogs is headed to the big screen, and Deadline reports today that Sophie Wilde, the breakout star of last year’s Talk to Me, is attached to lead the film’s cast.
New Regency is adapting the video game from Ubisoft. Mathieu Turi (The Deep Dark) is directing the Watch Dogs movie, written by Christie LeBlanc (Oxygen).
Deadline notes in their report today, “The film is set within the universe of Ubisoft’s blockbuster video game franchise of the same name, with over 50 million players.”
The site goes on to report, “The popular game is set in fictionalized versions of real-life cities, at various points in time, and follow different hacker protagonists who, while having different goals to achieve, find themselves involved with the criminal underworlds of their respective cities. The antagonists are usually corrupt companies, crime bosses, and rival hackers who take advantage of ctOS...
New Regency is adapting the video game from Ubisoft. Mathieu Turi (The Deep Dark) is directing the Watch Dogs movie, written by Christie LeBlanc (Oxygen).
Deadline notes in their report today, “The film is set within the universe of Ubisoft’s blockbuster video game franchise of the same name, with over 50 million players.”
The site goes on to report, “The popular game is set in fictionalized versions of real-life cities, at various points in time, and follow different hacker protagonists who, while having different goals to achieve, find themselves involved with the criminal underworlds of their respective cities. The antagonists are usually corrupt companies, crime bosses, and rival hackers who take advantage of ctOS...
- 3/8/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Hack the planet! Oh, wait, that’s a different movie about hackers. Never mind. After scaring the daylights out of horror fans in A24‘s Talk to Me – which recently won the Best Horror category at the 22nd Golden Schmoe Awards – Sophie Wilde is lining up her next project with New Regency’s adaptation of the UbiSoft video game Watch Dogs. With over 50 million players since the franchise began in 2014 with the release of Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs: Bad Blood, the film adaptation finds French genre filmmaker Mathieu Turi in the director’s chair. Turi directs Watch Dogs from a script by Christie LeBlanc, who wrote the Alexandre Aja-directed Netflix film Oxygen.
UbiSoft’s Watch Dogs franchise includes the games Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs: Bad Blood, Watch Dogs 2, Watch Dogs: Legion, and Watch Dogs: Legion – Bloodline. The franchise plot varies from game to game, though Watch Dogs generally...
UbiSoft’s Watch Dogs franchise includes the games Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs: Bad Blood, Watch Dogs 2, Watch Dogs: Legion, and Watch Dogs: Legion – Bloodline. The franchise plot varies from game to game, though Watch Dogs generally...
- 3/8/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Following her breakout role in the A24 horror hit Talk To Me, Sophie Wilde has found her follow-up project as she is in talks to star in New Regency’s Watch Dogs, an adaptation of the popular UbiSoft hit video game. The film is set within the universe of Ubisoft’s blockbuster video game franchise of the same name, with over 50 million players.
The film is being directed by acclaimed French genre director Mathieu Turi, from an original screenplay written by Christie LeBlanc, known for writing the Netflix original sci-fi thriller Oxygen based on the 2016 Black List script O2, and revised by Victoria Bata.
Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann will produce for New Regency Pictures, alongside Margaret Boykin for Ubisoft Film & Television.
While plot details are being kept under wraps, the popular game is set in fictionalized versions of real-life cities, at various points in time, and follow different hacker protagonists who,...
The film is being directed by acclaimed French genre director Mathieu Turi, from an original screenplay written by Christie LeBlanc, known for writing the Netflix original sci-fi thriller Oxygen based on the 2016 Black List script O2, and revised by Victoria Bata.
Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann will produce for New Regency Pictures, alongside Margaret Boykin for Ubisoft Film & Television.
While plot details are being kept under wraps, the popular game is set in fictionalized versions of real-life cities, at various points in time, and follow different hacker protagonists who,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Mélanie Laurent is excellent as a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic pod with enough oxygen to last the length of the film
Here is a single-location mystery thriller from first-time feature screenwriter Christie LeBlanc which is more than a bit on the preposterous side. It requires some hefty levels of disbelief suspension and plausibility buy-in. But the excellent Mélanie Laurent (from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds) sells it hard, and it’s a rather elegant contrivance, more restrained than usual from this director, the shlock-horror specialist Alexandre Aja.
Laurent plays a woman who wakes up enclosed in a cryogenic hi-tech pod, slightly bigger than a coffin, surrounded by screens and readouts, hooked up to various life-support wires. She can’t remember who she is or why she is there, although she is almost immediately plagued with traumatised flashbacks of being rushed into hospital. Or is she rushing someone else into hospital?...
Here is a single-location mystery thriller from first-time feature screenwriter Christie LeBlanc which is more than a bit on the preposterous side. It requires some hefty levels of disbelief suspension and plausibility buy-in. But the excellent Mélanie Laurent (from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds) sells it hard, and it’s a rather elegant contrivance, more restrained than usual from this director, the shlock-horror specialist Alexandre Aja.
Laurent plays a woman who wakes up enclosed in a cryogenic hi-tech pod, slightly bigger than a coffin, surrounded by screens and readouts, hooked up to various life-support wires. She can’t remember who she is or why she is there, although she is almost immediately plagued with traumatised flashbacks of being rushed into hospital. Or is she rushing someone else into hospital?...
- 5/13/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Netflix’s Oxygen (Oxygène), a French-language thriller set inside a tiny cryogenic pod, went through a handful of iterations before landing as an eerily timely take on confinement. The film, based on Christie LeBlanc’s 2016 Black List script, was originally slated to be shot in English and with Anne Hathaway attached to star. It was later transformed into a project led by Noomi Rapace with Franck Khalfoun directing and Alexandre Aja producing. Ultimately, the pandemic scuppered plans for that version and Aja took over helming duties with Mélanie Laurent in the role of Liz, a doctor who wakes up amid a labyrinth of wires and tubes in an extremely confined space and with no idea where she is, or why. The contained race for survival film, part of Netflix’s push to local-language productions, was shot last summer — just after the first Covid lockdown lifted in France — and releases globally today.
- 5/12/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
A taut single-location Netflix thriller about a woman (Mélanie Laurent) who wakes up in a futuristic cryogenic chamber with no idea of who she is, why she’s there, or what she can to get out before she runs out of air, Alexandre Aja’s “Oxygen” would seem to be the perfect Covid-era collaboration between the directors of “High Tension” and “Breathe.” The rare high-concept movie that grows more compelling as it begins to unveil its mysteries, the film plays out as a frantic game of 200 questions that hinges on Laurent’s character desperately asking the chamber’s ultra-advanced A.I. companion (voiced by Mathieu Amalric) to sift through social media and make a few last-ditch phone calls. Anything, she hopes, that might restore her memory or make contact with someone who can open the pod bay door before she asphyxiates to death.
But for all of the wild reveals that “Oxygen” has in store,...
But for all of the wild reveals that “Oxygen” has in store,...
- 5/11/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Single-location films can be considered something of a game between the creators and audience—beyond the way any bit of narrative could be considered a game between storyteller and audience. Walking into a movie knowing it takes place in one location, especially if that location is the size of a coffin-like cryogenics pod, one almost begins to make a list of questions for the director in their head. How will you justify any scenes that take place outside of the space? How will you build character or introduce new people into the story? How are you going to keep this interesting? If the writer and director and everyone else involved haven’t properly thought these questions through, the audience is out of luck.
Happily, that is not the case with Oxygen, the new single-location science fiction mystery thriller from director Alexandre Aja. Working off a tight, clever script from writer Christie LeBlanc,...
Happily, that is not the case with Oxygen, the new single-location science fiction mystery thriller from director Alexandre Aja. Working off a tight, clever script from writer Christie LeBlanc,...
- 5/11/2021
- by Brian Roan
- The Film Stage
If you’ve felt physically trapped over the past 14 months, you’ll feel right at home in Oxygen (Oxygène), a locked-in-a-box conceptual thriller that more or less succeeds almost entirely due to Mélanie Laurent’s resourceful performance as a woman who has no idea why she’s become trapped in a tiny cryogenic pod.
The Netflix offering, which debuts May 12, does feel rather like an exercise the filmmakers have set for themselves just to see if they could pull it off; to that end, they would have benefitted from strictly limiting themselves to a 90-minute running time. It’s also likely that this is a film that would play better to captive audiences in a darkened theater, rather than at home where you can put it on pause, take a break or grab a beer. All the same, this French-language slice of speculative fiction boasts smarts and skills that will...
The Netflix offering, which debuts May 12, does feel rather like an exercise the filmmakers have set for themselves just to see if they could pull it off; to that end, they would have benefitted from strictly limiting themselves to a 90-minute running time. It’s also likely that this is a film that would play better to captive audiences in a darkened theater, rather than at home where you can put it on pause, take a break or grab a beer. All the same, this French-language slice of speculative fiction boasts smarts and skills that will...
- 5/10/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
A clever example of creativity thriving within the strict protocols of the coronavirus pandemic, tense confinement thriller “Oxygen” plays like “Buried” in outer space: a ticking-clock sci-fi survival drama centered on a single character (“Inglourious Basterds” star Mélanie Laurent) trapped in a spiffy, coffin-like cryochamber with critically low reserves of breathable air. The blank-brained “bioform” awakens ahead of schedule, sealed in some kind of futuristic membrane, with only a helpful Hal 9000-like talking computer called Milo to assist her.
Making his first French-language feature since “High Tension,” extreme-horror helmer Alexandre Aja injects a bit too much outside-the-box style into Christie LeBlanc’s bare-bones, Black List-selected screenplay. But the timing is fortuitous: Here’s a high-concept Netflix movie, originally intended for another actress, that was shot in the window between France’s initial Covid-19 lockdown and the industry-hammering second wave.
Arriving now, as humankind tentatively emerges from a kind of global hypersleep,...
Making his first French-language feature since “High Tension,” extreme-horror helmer Alexandre Aja injects a bit too much outside-the-box style into Christie LeBlanc’s bare-bones, Black List-selected screenplay. But the timing is fortuitous: Here’s a high-concept Netflix movie, originally intended for another actress, that was shot in the window between France’s initial Covid-19 lockdown and the industry-hammering second wave.
Arriving now, as humankind tentatively emerges from a kind of global hypersleep,...
- 5/7/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
A woman wakes up in cryogenic chamber, hooked up to various tubes, cocooned in an fibrous cotton, with no idea how she got there, where it is, or even who she is. And it seems she's awake because of a fault in the chamber's system; the oxygen levels are dropping, and she has about an hour until she asphixiates. And her only help is the chamber's computer system, which, like so many computer systems, can only help when it's asked the right questions. Alexandre Aja's latest directorial feature leans more to science fiction than horror, despite the rather desperate premise of its main character. A first feature script by Christie LeBlanc, Oxygen proverbially (since its protagonist is rather trapped) runs with its high concept twists...
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- 5/5/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Oxygen Trailer 2 — Netflix has released the second movie trailer for Oxygen (2021). View here the first Oxygen movie trailer. Cast and crew Alexandre Aja‘s Oxygen stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Marc Saez, Malik Zidi, Eric Herson-Macarel, and Cathy Cerda. Christie LeBlanc wrote the screenplay for Oxygen. Robin Coudert created the music for [...]
Continue reading: Oxygen Trailer 2: Mélanie Laurent Regains Conscience in a Cryogenic Unit with No Memory in Alexandre Aja’s 2021 Movie...
Continue reading: Oxygen Trailer 2: Mélanie Laurent Regains Conscience in a Cryogenic Unit with No Memory in Alexandre Aja’s 2021 Movie...
- 4/22/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
As Hollywood begins to roll out their fastest and most furious films to provide a much-needed adrenaline shot to the theater exhibition market, we do have to admit that perhaps our most-anticipated summer movie thrills will be in a small-scale Netflix movie.
Following up his immensely entertaining Crawl, Alexandre Aja is back with a survival thriller marking his return to a French-language film. Led by Mélanie Laurent, Oxygen follows a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic unit with no memory. Quickly running out of oxygen, she must find a way to remember who she is in order to survive. Ahead of a May 12 release on Netflix, the full trailer has now arrived.
“I remember reading Christie LeBlanc’s script when it appeared on the Black List and feeling like it captured such an intense experience of survival so well,” Aja tells Collider. It got me thinking of the best of Buried,...
Following up his immensely entertaining Crawl, Alexandre Aja is back with a survival thriller marking his return to a French-language film. Led by Mélanie Laurent, Oxygen follows a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic unit with no memory. Quickly running out of oxygen, she must find a way to remember who she is in order to survive. Ahead of a May 12 release on Netflix, the full trailer has now arrived.
“I remember reading Christie LeBlanc’s script when it appeared on the Black List and feeling like it captured such an intense experience of survival so well,” Aja tells Collider. It got me thinking of the best of Buried,...
- 4/21/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Oxygen Trailer — Alexandre Aja‘s Oxygen (2021) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The Oxygen trailer stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Marc Saez, Malik Zidi, Eric Herson-Macarel, and Cathy Cerda. Crew Christie LeBlanc wrote the screenplay for Oxygen. Robin Coudert created the music for the film. Maxime Alexandre crafted the cinematography for [...]
Continue reading: Oxygen Trailer: Mélanie Laurent wakes in a Cryotube with Depleting Air in Alexandre Aja’s 2021 Thriller Movie...
Continue reading: Oxygen Trailer: Mélanie Laurent wakes in a Cryotube with Depleting Air in Alexandre Aja’s 2021 Thriller Movie...
- 3/10/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
After taking us into a submerged house filled with alligators in Crawl, filmmaker Alexandre Aja is now taking viewers into the claustrophobic confines of a cryogenic pod in his new movie Oxygen, which is teased in a new trailer ahead of its May 12th premiere on Netflix.
Directed by Aja from a screenplay by Christie LeBlanc, Oxygen stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, and Malik Zidi.
Synopsis: "Oxygen is a French survival thriller directed by Alexandre Aja. The film tells the story of a young woman, who wakes up in a cryogenic pod. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up there. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare."
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Directed by Aja from a screenplay by Christie LeBlanc, Oxygen stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, and Malik Zidi.
Synopsis: "Oxygen is a French survival thriller directed by Alexandre Aja. The film tells the story of a young woman, who wakes up in a cryogenic pod. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up there. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare."
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- 3/10/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Following up his immensely entertaining Crawl, Alexandre Aja is back with a survival thriller marking his return to a French-language film. Led by Mélanie Laurent, Oxygen follows a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic unit with no memory. Quickly running out of oxygen, she must find a way to remember who she is in order to survive. Ahead of a May 12 release on Netflix, the first trailer has now landed, setting up this frightening scenario.
“I remember reading Christie LeBlanc’s script when it appeared on the Black List and feeling like it captured such an intense experience of survival so well,” Aja tells Collider. It got me thinking of the best of Buried, but with a 28 Days Later twist. I was in it all the way, I pictured myself waking up locked in this cryo unit, trying to figure out who put me there and why, I felt her desperation.
“I remember reading Christie LeBlanc’s script when it appeared on the Black List and feeling like it captured such an intense experience of survival so well,” Aja tells Collider. It got me thinking of the best of Buried, but with a 28 Days Later twist. I was in it all the way, I pictured myself waking up locked in this cryo unit, trying to figure out who put me there and why, I felt her desperation.
- 3/10/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Alexandre Aja has been confirmed to direct the slightly confusingly-titled O2 for Netflix. The survival thriller, which is presumably not linked to the mobile phone network of the same name, will be shot in the French language, and is currently expected to arrive on Netflix in mid-2021. Production has now started for the feature, a positive sign given the recent Covid-19 delays to the entertainment industry.
O2 will star Mélanie Laurent, best known for turns in Inglourious Basterds and 6 Underground, as well as the repeatedly-delayed Tenet, as a woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit without her memory. The character then has to piece together her memories in order to escape the chamber before her oxygen runs out. Aja was originally set only to produce, with Franck Khalfoun of Maniac directing, but he’s now taken over directorial responsibilities as well.
Furthermore, Laurent’s role was reportedly first linked to Noomi Rapace,...
O2 will star Mélanie Laurent, best known for turns in Inglourious Basterds and 6 Underground, as well as the repeatedly-delayed Tenet, as a woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit without her memory. The character then has to piece together her memories in order to escape the chamber before her oxygen runs out. Aja was originally set only to produce, with Franck Khalfoun of Maniac directing, but he’s now taken over directorial responsibilities as well.
Furthermore, Laurent’s role was reportedly first linked to Noomi Rapace,...
- 7/23/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
After book-ending the last decade with the immensely enjoyable Piranha 3D and Crawl, Alexandre Aja is now kicking off this decade with a survival thriller marking his return to a French-language film. Led by Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, and Malik Zidi, the film, which has already begun shooting, is titled O2 and has been picked up by Netflix for a release in mid-2021.
The script by Christie LeBlanc, which made the Black List, tells the story of a young woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up sequestered in a box no larger than a coffin. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare. After the impressive thrills of the small-scale Crawl, Aja seems to be in the same one-location wheelhouse here. Prior to Laurent taking the lead,...
The script by Christie LeBlanc, which made the Black List, tells the story of a young woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up sequestered in a box no larger than a coffin. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare. After the impressive thrills of the small-scale Crawl, Aja seems to be in the same one-location wheelhouse here. Prior to Laurent taking the lead,...
- 7/23/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Vincent Maraval produces through his Getaway Films banner; project stars Mélanie Laurent.
Production has started today (July 23) in France on Alexandre Aja’s survival thriller 02 for Netflix.
The project stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric and Malik Zidi, and is based on a Black List script by Christie LeBlanc.
The film is produced by Wild Bunch CEO and Getaway Films partner Vincent Maraval alongside Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide. Aja also acts as producer alongside longtime associate Gregory Levasseur.
Laurent plays a young woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit. She doesn’t remember who she is or how...
Production has started today (July 23) in France on Alexandre Aja’s survival thriller 02 for Netflix.
The project stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric and Malik Zidi, and is based on a Black List script by Christie LeBlanc.
The film is produced by Wild Bunch CEO and Getaway Films partner Vincent Maraval alongside Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide. Aja also acts as producer alongside longtime associate Gregory Levasseur.
Laurent plays a young woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit. She doesn’t remember who she is or how...
- 7/23/2020
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Netflix has begun production on O2, a French survival thriller to be directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Melanie Laurent. Getaway Films’ Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide are producing the Black List script by Christie LeBlanc. The film will be released on Netflix in mid-2021. Mathieu Amalric and Malik Zidi have also joined the cast.
This is a project that previously had Noomi Rapace attached to star for director Franck Khalfoun and with Aja producing (Wild Bunch International kicked off sales at the Efm). Prior to that, Anne Hathaway was in the mix. The most recent switch-up marks Aja’s return behind the camera on a French-language project after such U.S.-based films as Crawl, The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha 3D. Aja will also produce alongside longtime associate Gregory Levasseur.
O2 tells the story of a young woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit.
This is a project that previously had Noomi Rapace attached to star for director Franck Khalfoun and with Aja producing (Wild Bunch International kicked off sales at the Efm). Prior to that, Anne Hathaway was in the mix. The most recent switch-up marks Aja’s return behind the camera on a French-language project after such U.S.-based films as Crawl, The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha 3D. Aja will also produce alongside longtime associate Gregory Levasseur.
O2 tells the story of a young woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit.
- 7/23/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has boarded “O2,” a French survival thriller directed by Alexandre Aja, whose credits include “Crawl,” “The Hills Have Eyes” and “Piranha 3D.”
The film, which marks the return of Aja to a French-speaking project after a 15-year career in the U.S., is produced by Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide for Getaway Films.
Mélanie Laurent will headline the film, alongside Mathieu Amalric (“The French Dispatch”) and Malik Zidi (“Play”).
Aja also acts as producer alongside his longtime associate Gregory Levasseur. The film will be released on Netflix mid 2021.
David Kosse, VP, international original film, and Gaëlle Mareschi, creative manager of international original film, Netflix, said that Aja would be “taking us on a thrilling and unexpected ride physically, but also emotionally, bringing his imagination to another level.”
Based on Christie LeBlanc’s original script which was on The Black List, “O2″ tells the story of a young...
The film, which marks the return of Aja to a French-speaking project after a 15-year career in the U.S., is produced by Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide for Getaway Films.
Mélanie Laurent will headline the film, alongside Mathieu Amalric (“The French Dispatch”) and Malik Zidi (“Play”).
Aja also acts as producer alongside his longtime associate Gregory Levasseur. The film will be released on Netflix mid 2021.
David Kosse, VP, international original film, and Gaëlle Mareschi, creative manager of international original film, Netflix, said that Aja would be “taking us on a thrilling and unexpected ride physically, but also emotionally, bringing his imagination to another level.”
Based on Christie LeBlanc’s original script which was on The Black List, “O2″ tells the story of a young...
- 7/23/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Noomi Rapace gets a starring role, ArcLight Cinemas hires Ted Mundorff and a “Karn Evil 9” movie is in the works.
Casting
Noomi Rapace will star in the thriller “O2,” which will launch sales next week at the European Film Market in Berlin through Wild Bunch International.
Franck Khalfoun is directing and Alexandre Aja is producing and supervising artistic direction. CAA Media Finance will represent domestic rights.
Echo Lake Entertainment, 42 and Wild Bunch International are also producing. The script by Christie LeBlanc was on the 2016 Black List. The story revolves around a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic medical pod and finds herself alone with no memory. She has 90 minutes of oxygen left and must figure out how to save herself.
Rapace achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium book series, which included “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,...
Casting
Noomi Rapace will star in the thriller “O2,” which will launch sales next week at the European Film Market in Berlin through Wild Bunch International.
Franck Khalfoun is directing and Alexandre Aja is producing and supervising artistic direction. CAA Media Finance will represent domestic rights.
Echo Lake Entertainment, 42 and Wild Bunch International are also producing. The script by Christie LeBlanc was on the 2016 Black List. The story revolves around a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic medical pod and finds herself alone with no memory. She has 90 minutes of oxygen left and must figure out how to save herself.
Rapace achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium book series, which included “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,...
- 2/15/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” actress Noomi Rapace is set to star in the thriller “O2” from producer Alexandra Aja about a woman trapped alone in a pod with only 90 minutes of oxygen, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Franck Khalfoun is directing the film from a script by Christie LeBlanc that appeared on the 2016 Black List.
Rapace will play a woman who wakes up from a cryogenic slumber trapped in a medical pod all alone and with no memory of who or where she is. But she discovers she only has 90 minutes of oxygen left in the pod and must discover how to escape and how she ended up in the pod before she suffocates.
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CAA Media Finance is handling domestic sales for “O2” and will present the movie to buyers at the European Film Market.
Franck Khalfoun is directing the film from a script by Christie LeBlanc that appeared on the 2016 Black List.
Rapace will play a woman who wakes up from a cryogenic slumber trapped in a medical pod all alone and with no memory of who or where she is. But she discovers she only has 90 minutes of oxygen left in the pod and must discover how to escape and how she ended up in the pod before she suffocates.
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CAA Media Finance is handling domestic sales for “O2” and will present the movie to buyers at the European Film Market.
- 2/14/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) is attached to star in contained Black List thriller O2, which has Franck Khalfoun (Amityville: The Awakening) directing and Wild Bunch International aboard for sales.
Vincent Maraval’s Paris-based outfit will begin discussing the fun genre project with buyers next week at the Efm in Berlin. Crawl and The Hills Have Eyes reboot writer-director Alexandre Aja is producing and supervising artistic direction. CAA Media Finance will rep domestic.
Echo Lake Entertainment, 42 and Wild Bunch International are also producing. Written by Christie LeBlanc, the script was a buzzed-about prospect on the 2016 Black List.
The pic centers on a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic medical pod, alone, with no memory, and no way out. All she knows is that she has 90 minutes of oxygen left and must figure out how to save herself, while discovering who she really is, who put her there, and most importantly – why?...
Vincent Maraval’s Paris-based outfit will begin discussing the fun genre project with buyers next week at the Efm in Berlin. Crawl and The Hills Have Eyes reboot writer-director Alexandre Aja is producing and supervising artistic direction. CAA Media Finance will rep domestic.
Echo Lake Entertainment, 42 and Wild Bunch International are also producing. Written by Christie LeBlanc, the script was a buzzed-about prospect on the 2016 Black List.
The pic centers on a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic medical pod, alone, with no memory, and no way out. All she knows is that she has 90 minutes of oxygen left and must figure out how to save herself, while discovering who she really is, who put her there, and most importantly – why?...
- 2/14/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
O2: Anne Hathaway (Interstellar, above) will star in O2. It's described as "a contained thriller with sci-fi elements." Hathaway will play a woman trapped inside a cryogenic chamber with no memory of how she got there; she must escape before her oxygen runs out. Christie LeBlanc wrote the original screenplay; production is aiming to get underway this fall. [Deadline] The Purge 4: Indie filmmaker Gerard McMurray (Burning Sands) will direct The Purge 4. James DeMonaco (The Purge: Election Year, above), who wrote and directed the first three installments in the horror series, wrote the script for the upcoming movie and consulted on the selection of a director. The series imagines a near-future world in which all crime is legal for a 12-hour period each...
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- 7/21/2017
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Anne Hathaway is set to star in “O2,” a sci-fi thriller, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. Im Global is closing a deal to finance the film that will begin shooting this fall. Christie LeBlanc wrote the script for “O2,” in which Hathaway will play a woman who wakes up inside a cryogenic chamber with no knowledge of how she got there. She has to escape the chamber before the air runs out. Also Read: Anne Hathaway and James Corden Perform Rom Com With 12 Songs, 9 Sets and No Cuts (Video) The Oscar winner will produce alongside her manager.
- 7/20/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Anne Hathaway is stocking up on O2.
The actress will star in the sci-fi thriller, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed, as a woman who mysteriously wakes up inside a cryogenic chamber and must escape before her air supply runs out.
Christie LeBlanc wrote the script, which is largely devoted to a single performer, and marks her feature film debut. Suzan Bymel and Hathaway are producing with Echo Lake's Adam Riback and James Engle, and Im Global's Stuart Ford and Greg Shapiro will also be producers. Im Global is financing the $10 million project, and CAA is representing domestic rights. No director is currently attached, and production...
The actress will star in the sci-fi thriller, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed, as a woman who mysteriously wakes up inside a cryogenic chamber and must escape before her air supply runs out.
Christie LeBlanc wrote the script, which is largely devoted to a single performer, and marks her feature film debut. Suzan Bymel and Hathaway are producing with Echo Lake's Adam Riback and James Engle, and Im Global's Stuart Ford and Greg Shapiro will also be producers. Im Global is financing the $10 million project, and CAA is representing domestic rights. No director is currently attached, and production...
- 7/20/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Anne Hathaway will star in O2, a contained thriller with sci-fi elements that is fast coming together for a fall shoot. Im Global is closing a deal to finance the film that will fall in the $10 million budget range. In the script by Christie LeBlanc, Hathaway will play a woman who wakes up inside a cryogenic chamber, with no memory of how she got there. She must escape the chamber before her air runs out. Its sci-fi elements make it a closer cousin to Gravity…...
- 7/20/2017
- Deadline
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