SOVEREIGN: Oscar-Winner Mahershala Ali To Star In New Sci-Fi From eOne, 21 Laps
Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Mahershala Ali is set to star in a new sci-fi film, Sovereign. Plot details are being kept under wraps according to the latest press announcement sigaling the film from Entertainment One (eOne) and 21 Laps Entertainment. Three-time BAFTA-winning director Marc Munden (Amazon series Electric Dreams, upcoming The Secret Garden) is tapped to direct the film from a screenplay by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods who previous penned actor and director John Krasinski’s 2018 Critic’s Choice award-winning smash hit horror and now sequel-bound A Quiet Place; An original draft of the script was written by duo Greg Weidman and Geoff Tock (Zoo, Limitless), with revisions by Jack Thorne (Wonder, upcoming The Secret Garden). 21 Laps’ own Shawn Levy will produce along with Dan Levine and Dan Cohen, adding to previous credits that include Denis Villeneuve’s Eric Heisserer-penned and BAFTA-nominated Arrival, and the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, […]