Ghostbusters producer Ivan Reitman and his Montecito Picture Company will join forces with Anonymous Content to adapt Amy Foster’s forthcoming novel The Rift, the first in a new YA trilogy set to debut later this year.
Yfat Reiss Gendell
In the wilderness outside of Portland, Oregon, a rift has opened and connected Earth to the multiverse. A group of militarized teens known as The Citadels must protect humankind from hostile creatures that spew forth from the mysterious portal.
Steven Spielberg has found his villain for the feature adaptation Ready Player One offering the role of the main antagonist to Ben Mendelsohn. He would star opposite Olivia Cooke who was previously cast as the female lead.
The indie starlet is in talks to play a virtual treasure hunt in Steven Spielberg’s next directing project
Logline: Story centers on a teenager named Wade Watts who escapes his bleak surrounds by logging into Oasis, a globally networked virtual utopia where users lead idyllic alternate lives. When the game’s eccentric billionaire creator dies, he offers up his fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt, one that leaves Watts pitted against powerful corporate foes and several ruthless competitors who’ll do anything, in the Oasis or the real world, to reach the treasure first.
