Lord & Miller to direct pandemic drama The Premonition
It was never going to take Hollywood too long to start rolling out the pandemic themed dramas, but it comes as something of a surprise to learn that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are attached to produce and direct an adaptation of
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story for Universal Pictures
.
According to Deadline the duo will produce the film with Amy Pascal, under her Pascal Pictures banner, and hope to start production as soon as they’re wrapped on Ryan Gosling sci-fi movie
The Big Short,
The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a group of scientists who anticipated, traced and hunted the coronavirus; who understood the need to think differently, to learn from history, to question everything; and to do all of this fast, in order to act, to save lives, communities, society itself. It’s a story about the workings of the human mind; about the failures and triumphs of human judgement and imagination. It’s the
With the worldwide pandemic still raging in places, you really would think that filmmakers might shy away from movies that tackle the subject as people keep getting ill and, sadly, dying. Yet the projects pop up, one after another, with the latest coming from an unexpected team-up: Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and
The writing/directing/producing duo, more normally known for the comedic likes of the
LEGO movies and for shepherding this year s delightful
The Mitchells Vs. The Machines are looking to get a little more serious for the potential adaptation, which focuses on a series of medical visionaries who saw the dangers of an exponential Covid spread, based on the information that was coming from China, and by doing mathematical calculations, even as President Trump assured Americans they had nothing to worry about. The focus is on three main characters who work in the White House: a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee. In their own way, they tri
The Martian is one of those random successes thatâs hard to see playing out in any other method than it did back in 2015. Matt Damonâs Mark Watney anchored an ensemble cast with his central character, who was full of wit, scientific knowhow and a creative handle on the English language, swears and all. And yet, if 20th Century Fox had its way, Matt Damon would have missed out on the Oscar-nominated role, because the studio s first choice was Channing Tatum.
Itâs strange to think about that alternate casting, but itâs exactly what would have happened had Matt Damon himself not lobbied for the role. I learned this surprising fact when speaking with author Andy Weir, the man who wrote the novel
Daily Authority: Google tweets new Pixel Buds then deletes (again), and more
05/05/21 newsletter
Google does it again
At this point, Google leaking its own products in advance seems more like “leaking” and a marketing strategy rather than a continual series of mistakes.
This time, Google from its own official Android Twitter account published (then deleted) an announcement of its new Pixel Buds A-Series which is expected to be a cheaper and just-as-cheerful new edition of its Pixel Buds.
At least purposeful “accidents” are more interesting than just someone somewhere making a mistake.
Anyway, the new Pixel Buds A-Series first, here’s the tweet before it was removed:
The Atlantic
How the Space Fantasy Became Banal
The final frontier, as a setting, has long channeled giddy dreams of human communion. A new group of cultural works explores the opposite possibility.
For All Mankind.
During the Geneva Summit of 1985, as Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev attempted to negotiate their way out of the Cold War, the American president paused the proceedings, the lore goes, to pose a question. “What would you do if the United States were suddenly attacked by someone from outer space?” Reagan reportedly asked. “Would you help us?”
“I said, ‘No doubt about it,’” Gorbachev later recalled. “He said, ‘We too.’” And the summit went on from there.