Based on the novel Afterlife.
Marcus Sakey
Author Marcus Sakey is hoping to make a big splash this weekend with as his upcoming novel Afterlife prepares to hit the market. His previous novel Brilliance was sold to Legendary for $1.25 million and attached Will Smith to star and Joe Roth to produce.
Tells a love story that crosses parallel worlds.
The project, based on the thriller by Marcus Sakey, had previously been with Ben Affleck and Sean Bailey.
Logline: Set in a world where one percent of children are born savants with special powers (called “brilliants”), a federal agent uses his skills to become a master terrorist hunter, pursuing a savant terrorist who intends to ignite a civil war.
Logline: A marine comes home to Chicago for his brother’s funeral only to end up going after gang that murdered him.
Logline: A couple in debt from several rounds of futile fertility treatments think their problems are solved when they stumble upon money found in their deceased tenant’s apartment.
