Filmmaking duo Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman burst onto the scene with the doc Catfish and then went on to direct the best installment in the Paranormal Activity franchise, Paranormal Activity 3, as well as Paranormal Activity 4 and the more recent films Viral and Nerve. Up next, they’re directing an untitled sci-fi movie for Netflix, as we learned last week.
Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star in the film, and Deadline adds tonight that Dominique Fishback (“The Deuce”) has signed on as the female lead.
The film, penned by Mattson Tomlin (Boy), “concerns a drug epidemic that gives people a range of superpowers. The protagonist is believed to be a teenage actress of color who finds herself dealing the drug to help care for her family. Sources say Foxx will play a family man who has suffered a great loss and is desperate to trace the drug’s supply line and find its designer, while Gordon-Levitt will play a beat cop who takes law enforcement matters into his own hands.”
Eric Newman and Bryan Unkeless will produce for Screen Arcade.