Kate Mara joins the forged of the sci-fi thriller, “The Astronaut”

Highland Movie Group will likely be dealing with worldwide gross sales

Kate Mara (“A Trainer”, “The Martian”, “Home Of Playing cards”) and Gabriel Luna (“Terminator: Darkish Destiny”, “The Final Of Us”) are becoming a member of Laurence Fishburne (“John Wick” movies, “The Matrix” trilogy) as the celebrities of the sci-fi thriller “The Astronaut”.

Jess Varley (“Phobias”) makes her solo writing and directorial debut.

“The Astronaut” is produced by Fuller Media’s Brad Fuller (Paramount’s “A Quiet Place” and “A Quiet Place Half II”, Common’s “The Purge” movies) and Cameron Fuller, alongside Marvel Firm’s Eric B. Fleischman (J.D. Dillard’s “Sleight“) and Chris Abernathy (“Barbarian”).

Highland Movie Group is representing worldwide rights to “The Astronaut”, on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.

CAA Media Finance and the UTA Impartial Movie Group are co-repping home rights.

Manufacturing is about to start out in October in Eire beneath an interim SAG-AFTRA settlement.

When astronaut Sam Walker (Mara) returns from her first house mission, she’s discovered miraculously alive in a punctured capsule floating deep off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

Anticipating to be reunited along with her husband (Luna), she finds herself positioned beneath intense NASA surveillance in a excessive safety home for rehabilitation and medical testing beneath the management of Common William Harris (Fishburne).

Nevertheless, when disturbing occurrences start taking place across the property, she fears that one thing extraterrestrial has adopted her again to Earth.

“We’re so happy that Kate Mara and Gabriel Luna have joined with Laurence Fishburne to deliver Jess Varley’s script to life,” stated Highland Movie Group CEO Arianne Fraser. “We’re delighted to be collaborating with this group of producers led by Brad Fuller to deliver this haunting sci-fi expertise to international audiences,” added Highland COO Delphine Perrier.

Mara is repped by CAA, Mosaic, and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern; Luna is represented by UTA, 360 and Ziffren Brittenham; Fishburne is repped CAA, Landmark Artists Administration, and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang; Varley is repped by Entertainment360 and Weintraub Tobin.

Highland Movie Group’s present gross sales slate additionally consists of William Eubank’s motion thriller “Land Of Unhealthy” starring Russell Crowe, Liam Hemsworth, and Luke Hemsworth; Joe Carnahan’s survival thriller “Not With out Hope” starring Zachary Levi and Josh Duhamel; Simon West’s motion comedy “Outdated Man” starring Christoph Waltz, Lucy Liu, and Cooper Hoffman; Dimitri Logothetis’ actioner “Gunner” starring Morgan Freeman and Luke Hemsworth; Adam Cooper’s crime thriller “Sleeping Canines” starring Russell Crowe and Karen Gillan; the survival thriller “The Ridge” starring Billy Magnussen; the high-concept horror movie “Rosario” starring Emeraude Toubia; Benjamin Brewer’s survival action-thriller “Arcadian” starring Nicolas Cage; Rod Blackhurst’s “Blood For Mud” starring Scoot McNairy, Package Harington, and Josh Lucas; John Stalberg Jr.’s “Muzzle” starring Aaron Eckhart; the sci-fi thriller “57 Seconds” starring Morgan Freeman and Josh Hutcherson.