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Max Landis’ ‘Decon’ Puts a Medical Prodigy Through Hell
Doogie Howser, eat your heart out.
QC Entertainment and Good Universe have stepped up to produce and finance Decon, a horror film script by Max Landis (Chronicle, Victor Frankenstein), Deadline writes.
Decon is the story of a young medical prodigy who is pushed to the mental, physical and emotional brink over the course of one night, after joining an elite team of doctors that treat the rarest, most gruesome and dangerous illnesses on earth.
Landis is white hot right now, scripting the upcoming David Ayer-directed Netflix pic Bright with Will Smith and Joel Edgerton starring and Deeper, the MGM film that Bradley Cooper will star in. He’s also creator, co-show runner and exec producer of BBC America’s “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”.
Pic will be produced by QC’s Sean McKittrick and Ray Mansfield, Landis, and Good Universe’s Nathan Kahane.
The companies are currently attaching a director to begin production in early 2018.
Two-time BAFTA winning filmmaker Joe Wright (Hanna, “Black Mirror“) is set to direct the feature adaptation of post-apocalyptic thriller novel, Juice, Deadline reports today.
Emmy winner Abi Morgan (Shame, “Eric”) will adapt Tim Winton‘s novel for Working Title Films.
In Juice, “A young husband and father is recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, to join the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.”
It’s set in a world ravaged by climate-change disaster.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that Tim Winton has entrusted us with his extraordinary epic,” Wright told Deadline. “The story is both a thrilling modern family saga and an urgent call to action. I cannot wait for audiences to experience it on the big screen.”
Winton added, “I’m pleased to know a filmmaker of Joe Wright’s calibre has chosen to adapt Juice for the screen. His capacity to portray the turmoil and the turning points of nations and peoples as well as private individuals distinguishes his work as a director and I’m confident that Juice is in good hands.”
Juice was initially published in October 2024 and longlisted for The Climate Fiction Prize 2026.
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