“Westworld” executive producer Lisa Joy scripted and will direct (her feature debut) a sci-fi thriller titled Reminiscence, and Deadline is reporting today that The Greatest Showman co-stars Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson are finalizing deals to star in the film.
“The script, which made the Black List several years ago, is complex and layered, but essentially, Jackman will play a private eye who deals in recapturing vivid cherished memories for clients. He becomes vexed by one of those clients (Ferguson). It is set slightly in the future in a Miami that has been changed by global warming, with much of the city submerged underwater.”
“It has been a labor of love and also vision,” Lisa Joy told Deadline. “I know exactly what I want this to be, including all of the action set pieces, and turning Miami into a sunken world. Working on Westworld has been an incredible experience in learning to make something with the scope of a feature on a TV timeline with a budget nowhere near what you would expect for a feature film equivalent.”
Head over to Deadline to read Joy’s full pitch for the project.
Joy, along with Jonathan Nolan, Michael De Luca and Aaron Ryder, will produce Reminiscence.