George Clooney has found himself in the director’s chair for six feature films to date, most recently last year’s Suburbicon, and Deadline is reporting today that he may make it seven with 20th Century Fox’s Echo. According to the site, Clooney is in early talks to direct the sci-fi thriller.
The site notes, “This is early stages, but my sources expect a deal will happen.”
Christopher MacBride wrote the script, described as “an original thriller with a sci-fi edge in which a drone specialist has a psychological crisis: is he paranoid in suspecting his lover is not who she appears to be, and could she possibly have been replaced?”
The film is produced by 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen (“Stranger Things”).