Max Landis, the son of the great Jon Landis, is booming. He’s currently behind the Syfy anthology series “Channel Zero,” while also having penned Chronicle and Victor Frankenstein (which I thought was actually very good). He also just sold his spec Bright, which will star both Will Smith and Joel Edgerton.
His next major project heads Deeper with The Hangover star Bradley Cooper, pictured, who toplines as a former astronaut hired to take a submersible to the lowest point in the ocean. As the submersible gets closer to its destination, supernatural events start to get involved.
Since James Cameron’s The Abyss and Sean S. Cunningham’s DeepStar Six, I’ve been desperately wanting to see a new deep-sea genre movie.
White God helmer Kornel Mundruczo is also attached to the project, Variety reports.
Sources say several suitors are looking into the spec, including Paramount, Lionsgate, STX, Black Box and Searchlight, with a deal expected shortly.
Landis will also produce with David Goyer and Addictive Pictures.