Quibi launches on April 6, 2020 in the US, and the short-form platform has announced today (via Deadline) that Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One) has been set to star in their survival thriller series “Wireless,” which comes from executive producer Steven Soderbergh.
In the series, created by Zach Wechter and Jack Seidman:
“A self-obsessed college student (Sheridan) is stranded in the Colorado mountains, and his only hope for survival is the tool he has spent his whole life learning to use: his smartphone.”
“Wireless is a survival thriller set inside the car he crashed and the quickly dying phone that is now his lifeline.”
“Wireless explores the personal relationship we all have with our devices, and brings life-and-death stakes to the choices we make in the digital world,” said Wechter, who will direct. “We’ve been designing stories specifically to be viewed on phones with our mobile filmmaking collective Pickpocket, and I couldn’t be more excited to have partners as dedicated to experimenting in the form as we are in Quibi, and the rest of our incredible collaborators on this project.”