Franka Potente (The Bourne Identity) and Tracy Letts (Ford v Ferrari) have been cast in Apple Studios’ sci-fi action thriller Liminal, Deadline reports.
They join the previously announced Vanessa Kirby (The Fantastic Four: First Steps), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Candyman), Tom Pelphrey (“Ozark”) in the film.
Louis Leterrier (Now You See Me, The Incredible Hulk) is directing from a script by Justin Rhodes (Terminator: Dark Fate), based on AWA Studios’ 2021 comic series Telepaths.
From writer J. Michael Straczynski, artist Steve Epting, and colorist Brian Reber, Telepaths sees an electromagnetic disturbance result in the sudden awakening of telepathic powers in a tenth of the Earth’s population.
In the moments after the world comes to grip with this development, newly-telepathic Boston police find themselves sent against a wrongly convicted prisoner who becomes a hero and leader of other telepaths trying to escape a world in which their powers will make them targets.
Zach Studin will produce for AWA alongside Kevin Walsh for The Walsh Company via his overall deal with Apple Studios. Executive producers include Straczynski, Epting, Reber, and Ray Angelic.
