{"id":31654,"date":"2025-07-02T04:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/31654\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:25:10","slug":"cynthia-erivo-to-star-in-saturation-point-movie-for-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/31654\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo to Star In ‘Saturation Point’ Movie for Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUniversal<\/a> Pictures, which has Jurassic World: Rebirth opening this week, is keeping the jungle monster action going with what could be a new sci-fi horror franchise.<\/p>\n

\n\tCynthia Erivo<\/a>, who stars in the studio\u2019s Wicked movies, has teamed up with Michael Bay<\/a> and Brad Fuller of Platinum Dunes to adapt\u00a0the sci-fi action thriller Saturation Point\u00a0for Universal.<\/p>\n

\n\tMinnie Schedeen will write the script, adapting the novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, known as a master of British sci-fi and an Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA Award winner.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2024 book is part climate thriller in which the Earth has a zone so hot and humid it makes it hard for humans to survive. Naturally, into this zone must go our protagonist, Dr. Jasmine Marks, who leads a search and rescue mission and who will discover that the zone is far deadlier\u00a0than initially believed. Not only that, her corporate bosses may not be telling the truth (shocker, right?) and not all forms of intelligent life in the zone are necessarily human.<\/p>\n

\n\tErivo will produce via her Edith\u2019s Daughter banner, along with the shingle\u2019s Solome Williams. The company has a first-look deal with Universal.<\/p>\n

\n\tBay and Fuller will produce through Platinum Dunes\u2019 first look with Universal. Alex Ginno will executive produce and oversee the project for Platinum Dunes.<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\u2019s senior vp production development Ryan Jones and director of production development Christine Sun will oversee the project for the studio.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Tchaikovsky, Minnie Schedeen, Michael Bay<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Pepperdine; Courtesy of Subject; Mat Hayward\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tErivo is coming off of an Oscar nomination for portraying the green witch Elphaba in Wicked, which grossed almost $800 million worldwide while earning 10 Oscar nominations and two wins. She reprises the role for Wicked: For Good, which arrives in theaters on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n

\n\tHorror and action are part of Platinum Dunes\u2019 DNA. The banner was behind the hit A Quiet Place and The Purge franchises. Among other moneymakers are Ouija plus live-action takes on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.<\/p>\n

\n\tTchaikovsky, known for the fantasy series Children of Time, is repped by the Mic Cheetham Agency and UTA. Schedeen, who has projects set up at Amazon MGM and New Line, among other studios, is repped by UTA, Untitled and Ziffren Brittenham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures, which has Jurassic World: Rebirth opening this week, is keeping the jungle monster action going with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,26732,171,26733,67,132,941,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-31654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-cynthia-erivo","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-michael-bay","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-universal","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114781744300141032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}