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Ubisoft has officially wrapped up production on the long-awaited Watch Dogs movie. In a recent tweet, the studio shared a behind-the-scenes image and marked the occasion with the caption "run film_wrapped.exe," signaling the end of filming. The announcement comes after more than a decade since the film was first revealed in 2013, around the time of the franchise's inception. French filmmaker Mathieu Turi directed the movie, working from a screenplay by Christie LeBlanc. It's been a quick production turnaround, as filming only began on the project back in July.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power star Markella Kavenagh is set to join the cast of the upcoming adaptation of Ubisoft's Watch Dogs.

Per Deadline, Kavenagh will join Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde in Watch Dogs, an adaptation of one of Ubisoft's most popular video games. Not much is known currently about the plot for the film, though production did wrap over the summer. There are no details regarding who Kavenagh will portray in the film. Mathieu Turi directs the film, with a screenplay penned by Victoria Bata and based on a story written by Christie LeBlanc. Natalie Lehmann and Margaret Boykin serve as producers on Watch Dogs.

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Tom Blyth and Emily Bader will star in 'People We Meet on Vacation'.The 29-year-old actor and the 27-year-old actress have been cast in the leading roles in the upcoming adaptation of Emily Henry‘s bestselling book, Deadline reports.Brett Haley will direct the movie for 3000 Pictures and Netflix, with Yulin Kuang adapting the screenplay. Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner will produce with Temple Hill’s Laura Quicksilver executive producing. The film is being produced under a new partnership where Sony Pictures will offer Netflix a first look at any films it intends to make for streaming.The book follows best friends and polar opposites Poppy (Bader) and Alex (Blyth) who go on vacation together every summer. After a mysterious falling out, they reunite for another trip, where they question whether their relationship is platonic or romantic.Meanwhile, it was recently revealed that Tom...

Watch Dogs film adaptation enters production after a decade, starring Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde. Ubisoft partners with Sony and New Regency to collaborate on the project, with plans to shoot this summer. The game's storyline and focus on information control make it a compelling thriller for the big screen.

Ubisoft's Watch Dogs film adaptation has finally begun production a decade after its announcement. The game first caught public attention at E3 2012, with players assuming the role of a hacker as protagonist in an urban setting controlled by pervasive surveillance systems.

Following the game's unveiling, there was an immediate rumor about a potential film adaptation, even before the game's official release. This idea took solid form in 2016 during Sonys GamesCon press conference where it was revealed that Ubisoft Partners and New Regency were collaborating on bringing the protagonist Aiden Pearce's story to the big screen.

Mathieu Turi, who will be directing the film,...

Production has begun on a film adaptation of the cybercrime videogame series Watch Dogs – over a decade after it was first announced.

After more than a decade in development, shooting has finally begun on Watch Dogs, the film adaptation of Ubisoft’s series of open-world hacking videogames.

The announcement comes directly from Ubisoft itself, which broke the news on X/Twitter/Muskbook with a photograph of a clapperboard and the caption ‘Lights_Camera_Action.exe’.

Watch Dogs was first announced in 2013, before the first game in the series had even been released. It was a period of excitement for Ubisoft, since it had just set up its own film division and had grand plans of making movies out of several of its properties.

There was even talk of Tom Hardy starring in a Splinter Cell movie. Enthusiasm began to cool when Ubisoft Motion Pictures put out its Assassin’s Creed film...

It’s been a few months since word arrived about Talk to Me star Sophie Wilde leading the cast of Mathieu Turi’s (The Deep Dark, Meander, Hostile) Watch Dogs. The live-action adaptation of UbiSoft’s popular video game series is quietly coming together at New Regency. Still, a new update about the project shows significant movement of the hacker-centric action film.

According to Turi’s Instagram account, production on Watch Dogs is in full effect. Turi posted an image of a clapboard for Watch Dogs alongside a caption featuring a pair of curious googly eyes. With over 50 million players since the franchise began in 2014 with the release of Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs: Bad Blood, the film adaptation finds French genre filmmaker Mathieu Turi in the director’s chair. Turi directs Watch Dogs from a script by Christie LeBlanc, who wrote the Alexandre Aja-directed Netflix film Oxygen.

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La lucha contra Ctos llega a la pantalla grande.

De acuerdo con Deadline, Sophia Wilde (“Talk to Me”) y Tom Blyth (“Los Juegos del Hambre: Balada de Pájaros Cantores y Serpientes”) protagonizarán la adaptación cinematográfica live-action del videojuego “Watch Dogs”, que comenzará su rodaje a finales de este verano.

La franquicia “Watch Dogs” incluye tres juegos hasta la fecha. Cada juego presenta historias diferentes en un mundo en el que hackers rebeldes intentan luchar contra las injusticias que permite Ctos, un sistema de información digital que conecta ciudades enteras en una única red. Desde Aiden Pearce en Chicago a Marcus Holloway en San Francisco, pasando por los ciudadanos de un Londres distópico, los miembros de la organización de hackers DedSec utilizan sus avanzadas aplicaciones y artilugios para socavar el opresivo reinado de Ctos y descubrir la corrupción que se esconde tras el sistema.

La adaptación cinematográfica estará dirigida por el director francés Mathieu Turi,...

Tom Blyth will star in the 'Watch Dogs' movie.The 29-year-old actor has joined Sophie Wilde in the cast of the new film that is based on the hit Ubisoft video game franchise.The picture is being directed by French filmmaker Mathieu Turi from a script written by Christie LeBlanc with revisions by Victoria Bata.The 'Watch Dogs' games immerse players in the world of skilled hackers as they use technology to combat oppressive forces that control major cities around the globe.The series has captivated audiences through the exploration of hacking culture and has over 50 million players worldwide. The most recent game, 'Watch Dogs: Legion', was released in 2020 and the franchise extends to other forms of media including both books and comics.Meanwhile, Tom portrayed a young Coriolanus Snow in 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' last year and expressed an interest in returning to the...

Tom Blyth, the breakout star of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is all set to lead another popular IP. He is confirmed to be the lead in the film adaptation of Watch Dogs, the hit video game from Ubisoft. New Regency will produce the film helmed by French director Mathieu Turi. Blyth will star opposite Talk to Me fame Sophie Wilde.

A still from Watch Dogs (2014) | Ubisoft

The film adaptation comes after years of being in development hell. Rumors of a film adaptation began in 2013, and it went into development in 2014. Interestingly, the positive update on the film comes at a time when fans largely believe that Ubisoft is done with the franchise.

Watch Dogs Live-Action Movie Casts Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde In The Lead

Tom Blyth in a still from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Lionsgate Films

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Watch Dogs, a video game franchise from Ubisoft, follows the story of skilled hackers who make use of complex technology to fend off oppressive forces trying to control major cities around the globe. Ubisoft’s action-adventure franchise has managed to captivate gamers with an appropriate portrayal of hacking culture and underground networks. The studio even had a film adaptation planned, but it ended up being stuck in development hell.

However, it seems like the Watch Dogs film adaptation is finally gearing up. The Robin Hood star, Tom Blyth, has now joined the film cast. While this has undoubtedly caused massive excitement among fans, many point towards the failure of the Assassin’s Creed movie series and believe that we shouldn’t even bother hyping up.

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Tom Blyth, breakout star from The Hunger Games prequel, is confirmed as the co-lead in a Watch Dogs movie adaptation. Blyth will be joining Sophie Wilde in Watch Dogs, which will adapt the Ubisoft video game series for the big screen. Because of the story of the first game, Blyth might be playing Aiden Pearce with Wilde as Clara Lille, though their roles have yet to be confirmed.

Tom Blyth, the breakout star from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, is now confirmed to be a lead in the upcoming movie adaptation of Watch Dogs, a game series made by Ubisoft. Blyth's career gained notoriety in 2023 when he joined the cast of Songbirds & Snakes as a younger Coriolanus Snow. His performance allowed the movie to explore the President of Panem's past while also putting the young actor on the map as a talented star.

Now, Deadline reports...

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star Tom Blyth has found his next major role. The actor has boarded the cast of Watch Dogs, an upcoming feature-length adaptation based on the popular video game series of the same name.

According to Deadline, the actor is set to co-star opposite Talk to Me's Sophie Wilde in Watch Dogs. The movie is in development at New Regency, the company that previously produced the 2016 Assassin's Creed adaptation starring Michael Fassbender. French genre director Mathieu Turi is helming Watch Dogs from a screenplay by Christie LeBlanc, with new revisions by Victoria Bata. New Regency's Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann will produce the movie alongside Ubisoft Film and TV Head Margaret Boykin.

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Exclusive: Following his breakout role in Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes, Tom Blyth is now ready for his next big potential franchise as he is set to co-star opposite Sophie Wilde in New Regency’s Watch Dogs, an adaptation of the popular UbiSoft hit video game. Deadline first reported earlier this year that Wilde was in talks and now both are confirmed to star in the pic that will be directed by French genre director Mathieu Turi.

Christie LeBlanc penned the original draft with new revisions by Victoria Bata. Yariv Milchan, Chairman and CEO of New Regency, and Natalie Lehmann, President of Motion Pictures and Television at New Regency, will produce with Margaret Boykin, Head of Content at Ubisoft Film & Television.

The Watch Dogs series video game series from Ubisoft, immerses players in the world of skilled hackers who use technology to combat oppressive forces controlling major cities across the world.

Ubisoft’s free-roam sci-fi action-adventure game series Watch Dogs has received mixed reviews from critics and players alike. The game did have an interesting premise, but some felt it didn’t break out of the Ubisoft open-world formula enough to stand out among other games like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry.

It seems the potential of the series has been noticed by people outside of the gaming community as well. It’s common for popular franchises to get adapted into other media, and the same is happening with a live-action movie for Watch Dogs. But is Ubisoft taking on more than it can handle?

The Watch Dogs Movie will be Created by New Regency

A Watch Dogs adaptation may not be the best idea for Ubisoft currently.

Deadline was the first to report on this matter. The movie will reportedly feature Sophie Wilde, who debuted in A24’s Talk to Me...

Talk To Me breakout star Sophie Wilde is set to appear in Watch Dogs, a long-in-gestation adaptation of Ubisoft’s hacking-based videogame series.

As such Hollywood films as Blackhat and Hackers have taught us, only the coolest and most photogenic people engage in cybercrime. The cool-and-trendy-hacker theme was continued in Watch Dogs, a series of sandbox action adventure videogames first published by Ubisoft in 2014.

Spawning a hit franchise comprising two sequels and counting, Watch Dogs sees high-tech outlaws cause all kinds of digital mischief in cities around the world, with each game taking in stealth, driving, fisticuffs, shooting and tinkering with electronic devices.

A film adaptation based on the series was first floated by Ubisoft Motion Pictures back in 2013, before the original game was even released. The division’s plans for a multitude of movies based on its games took something of a body blow, however, when 2016’s Assassin’s Creed,...

As the trend of turning video games into movies gains momentum, it appears that Watch Dogs is gearing up to join the league. According to reports from Deadline, the Ubisoft video game Watch-Dogs is set to receive the live-action movie treatment.

Watch Dogs: Legion

Actress Sophie Wilde is in talks to star in the film. This live-action movie will be based on the hit Ubisoft video game and take place within the same universe we know from playing the game.

Sounds like a thrilling ride for fans! However, amidst this exciting news, some fans have a few concerns as well.

Live-Action Movie Adaptation of Watch Dogs in the Works

The popular video game Watch Dogs might be getting its own movie adaptation. According to a recent report, Ubisoft’s hacking adventure is being eyed for a live-action film. As per reports from Deadline, A24 horror hit Talk To Me actor...

The video game Watch Dogs is headed to the big screen, and Deadline reports today that Sophie Wilde, the breakout star of last year’s Talk to Me, is attached to lead the film’s cast.

New Regency is adapting the video game from Ubisoft. Mathieu Turi (The Deep Dark) is directing the Watch Dogs movie, written by Christie LeBlanc (Oxygen).

Deadline notes in their report today, “The film is set within the universe of Ubisoft’s blockbuster video game franchise of the same name, with over 50 million players.”

The site goes on to report, “The popular game is set in fictionalized versions of real-life cities, at various points in time, and follow different hacker protagonists who, while having different goals to achieve, find themselves involved with the criminal underworlds of their respective cities. The antagonists are usually corrupt companies, crime bosses, and rival hackers who take advantage of ctOS...

Hack the planet! Oh, wait, that’s a different movie about hackers. Never mind. After scaring the daylights out of horror fans in A24‘s Talk to Me – which recently won the Best Horror category at the 22nd Golden Schmoe Awards – Sophie Wilde is lining up her next project with New Regency’s adaptation of the UbiSoft video game Watch Dogs. With over 50 million players since the franchise began in 2014 with the release of Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs: Bad Blood, the film adaptation finds French genre filmmaker Mathieu Turi in the director’s chair. Turi directs Watch Dogs from a script by Christie LeBlanc, who wrote the Alexandre Aja-directed Netflix film Oxygen.

UbiSoft’s Watch Dogs franchise includes the games Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs: Bad Blood, Watch Dogs 2, Watch Dogs: Legion, and Watch Dogs: Legion – Bloodline. The franchise plot varies from game to game, though Watch Dogs generally...

The Watch Dogs video game franchise is being adapted into a movie. The movie will be directed by Mathieu Turi and produced by New Regency Pictures and Ubisoft Film & Television. Talk to Me's Sophie Wilde is in talks to star in the movie.

The Watch Dogs video game franchise is officially being adapted into a movie. The first Watch Dogs game debuted on multiple platforms in 2014 and was followed by 2016's Watch Dogs 2 and 2020's Watch Dogs: Legion. The games in the trilogy followed different protagonists, but they were all centered on hackers in iconic modern-day cities across the globe.

Per Deadline, a Watch Dogs movie is now in development. While plot details are still unknown, the movie will be directed by The Deep Dark's Mathieu Turi from a screenplay by Christie LeBlanc. New Regency Pictures' Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann are producing with Ubisoft Film & Television's Margaret Boykin.

Exclusive: Following her breakout role in the A24 horror hit Talk To Me, Sophie Wilde has found her follow-up project as she is in talks to star in New Regency’s Watch Dogs, an adaptation of the popular UbiSoft hit video game. The film is set within the universe of Ubisoft’s blockbuster video game franchise of the same name, with over 50 million players.

The film is being directed by acclaimed French genre director Mathieu Turi, from an original screenplay written by Christie LeBlanc, known for writing the Netflix original sci-fi thriller Oxygen based on the 2016 Black List script O2, and revised by Victoria Bata.

Yariv Milchan and Natalie Lehmann will produce for New Regency Pictures, alongside Margaret Boykin for Ubisoft Film & Television.

While plot details are being kept under wraps, the popular game is set in fictionalized versions of real-life cities, at various points in time, and follow different hacker protagonists who,...

Mélanie Laurent is excellent as a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic pod with enough oxygen to last the length of the film

Here is a single-location mystery thriller from first-time feature screenwriter Christie LeBlanc which is more than a bit on the preposterous side. It requires some hefty levels of disbelief suspension and plausibility buy-in. But the excellent Mélanie Laurent (from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds) sells it hard, and it’s a rather elegant contrivance, more restrained than usual from this director, the shlock-horror specialist Alexandre Aja.

Laurent plays a woman who wakes up enclosed in a cryogenic hi-tech pod, slightly bigger than a coffin, surrounded by screens and readouts, hooked up to various life-support wires. She can’t remember who she is or why she is there, although she is almost immediately plagued with traumatised flashbacks of being rushed into hospital. Or is she rushing someone else into hospital?...

Netflix’s Oxygen (Oxygène), a French-language thriller set inside a tiny cryogenic pod, went through a handful of iterations before landing as an eerily timely take on confinement. The film, based on Christie LeBlanc’s 2016 Black List script, was originally slated to be shot in English and with Anne Hathaway attached to star. It was later transformed into a project led by Noomi Rapace with Franck Khalfoun directing and Alexandre Aja producing. Ultimately, the pandemic scuppered plans for that version and Aja took over helming duties with Mélanie Laurent in the role of Liz, a doctor who wakes up amid a labyrinth of wires and tubes in an extremely confined space and with no idea where she is, or why. The contained race for survival film, part of Netflix’s push to local-language productions, was shot last summer — just after the first Covid lockdown lifted in France — and releases globally today.

A taut single-location Netflix thriller about a woman (Mélanie Laurent) who wakes up in a futuristic cryogenic chamber with no idea of who she is, why she’s there, or what she can to get out before she runs out of air, Alexandre Aja’s “Oxygen” would seem to be the perfect Covid-era collaboration between the directors of “High Tension” and “Breathe.” The rare high-concept movie that grows more compelling as it begins to unveil its mysteries, the film plays out as a frantic game of 200 questions that hinges on Laurent’s character desperately asking the chamber’s ultra-advanced A.I. companion (voiced by Mathieu Amalric) to sift through social media and make a few last-ditch phone calls. Anything, she hopes, that might restore her memory or make contact with someone who can open the pod bay door before she asphyxiates to death.

But for all of the wild reveals that “Oxygen” has in store,...

Single-location films can be considered something of a game between the creators and audience—beyond the way any bit of narrative could be considered a game between storyteller and audience. Walking into a movie knowing it takes place in one location, especially if that location is the size of a coffin-like cryogenics pod, one almost begins to make a list of questions for the director in their head. How will you justify any scenes that take place outside of the space? How will you build character or introduce new people into the story? How are you going to keep this interesting? If the writer and director and everyone else involved haven’t properly thought these questions through, the audience is out of luck.

Happily, that is not the case with Oxygen, the new single-location science fiction mystery thriller from director Alexandre Aja. Working off a tight, clever script from writer Christie LeBlanc,...

If you’ve felt physically trapped over the past 14 months, you’ll feel right at home in Oxygen (Oxygène), a locked-in-a-box conceptual thriller that more or less succeeds almost entirely due to Mélanie Laurent’s resourceful performance as a woman who has no idea why she’s become trapped in a tiny cryogenic pod.

The Netflix offering, which debuts May 12, does feel rather like an exercise the filmmakers have set for themselves just to see if they could pull it off; to that end, they would have benefitted from strictly limiting themselves to a 90-minute running time. It’s also likely that this is a film that would play better to captive audiences in a darkened theater, rather than at home where you can put it on pause, take a break or grab a beer. All the same, this French-language slice of speculative fiction boasts smarts and skills that will...

A clever example of creativity thriving within the strict protocols of the coronavirus pandemic, tense confinement thriller “Oxygen” plays like “Buried” in outer space: a ticking-clock sci-fi survival drama centered on a single character (“Inglourious Basterds” star Mélanie Laurent) trapped in a spiffy, coffin-like cryochamber with critically low reserves of breathable air. The blank-brained “bioform” awakens ahead of schedule, sealed in some kind of futuristic membrane, with only a helpful Hal 9000-like talking computer called Milo to assist her.

Making his first French-language feature since “High Tension,” extreme-horror helmer Alexandre Aja injects a bit too much outside-the-box style into Christie LeBlanc’s bare-bones, Black List-selected screenplay. But the timing is fortuitous: Here’s a high-concept Netflix movie, originally intended for another actress, that was shot in the window between France’s initial Covid-19 lockdown and the industry-hammering second wave.

Arriving now, as humankind tentatively emerges from a kind of global hypersleep,...

A woman wakes up in cryogenic chamber, hooked up to various tubes, cocooned in an fibrous cotton, with no idea how she got there, where it is, or even who she is. And it seems she's awake because of a fault in the chamber's system; the oxygen levels are dropping, and she has about an hour until she asphixiates. And her only help is the chamber's computer system, which, like so many computer systems, can only help when it's asked the right questions. Alexandre Aja's latest directorial feature leans more to science fiction than horror, despite the rather desperate premise of its main character. A first feature script by Christie LeBlanc, Oxygen proverbially (since its protagonist is rather trapped) runs with its high concept twists...

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Oxygen Trailer 2 — Netflix has released the second movie trailer for Oxygen (2021). View here the first Oxygen movie trailer. Cast and crew Alexandre Aja‘s Oxygen stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Marc Saez, Malik Zidi, Eric Herson-Macarel, and Cathy Cerda. Christie LeBlanc wrote the screenplay for Oxygen. Robin Coudert created the music for [...]

Continue reading: Oxygen Trailer 2: Mélanie Laurent Regains Conscience in a Cryogenic Unit with No Memory in Alexandre Aja’s 2021 Movie...

As Hollywood begins to roll out their fastest and most furious films to provide a much-needed adrenaline shot to the theater exhibition market, we do have to admit that perhaps our most-anticipated summer movie thrills will be in a small-scale Netflix movie.

Following up his immensely entertaining Crawl, Alexandre Aja is back with a survival thriller marking his return to a French-language film. Led by Mélanie Laurent, Oxygen follows a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic unit with no memory. Quickly running out of oxygen, she must find a way to remember who she is in order to survive. Ahead of a May 12 release on Netflix, the full trailer has now arrived.

“I remember reading Christie LeBlanc’s script when it appeared on the Black List and feeling like it captured such an intense experience of survival so well,” Aja tells Collider. It got me thinking of the best of Buried,...

We have a brand new teaser trailer for Oxygen. This one comes from Netflix, serving as just one of the many original movies the streaming service has coming our way this year. The company is putting out at least one new movie a week, which is a lot more than any other major service on the market. In this case, we have a French-language thriller from director Alexandre Aja, serving as his follow-up to the 2019 alligator creature feature Crawl. It stars Melanie Laurent in what looks to be a tense and highly-contained ride.

The trailer opens with a close-up of someone waking up, rather surprised, and confused as to where they are. We then find Mélanie Laurent inside of a tube of some kind, surrounded by screens, not unlike the cryotubes seen in the Alien franchise. She is quick to find that the oxygen in this tank is running out and,...

Oxygen Trailer — Alexandre Aja‘s Oxygen (2021) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The Oxygen trailer stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Marc Saez, Malik Zidi, Eric Herson-Macarel, and Cathy Cerda. Crew Christie LeBlanc wrote the screenplay for Oxygen. Robin Coudert created the music for the film. Maxime Alexandre crafted the cinematography for [...]

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After taking us into a submerged house filled with alligators in Crawl, filmmaker Alexandre Aja is now taking viewers into the claustrophobic confines of a cryogenic pod in his new movie Oxygen, which is teased in a new trailer ahead of its May 12th premiere on Netflix.

Directed by Aja from a screenplay by Christie LeBlanc, Oxygen stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, and Malik Zidi.

Synopsis: "Oxygen is a French survival thriller directed by Alexandre Aja. The film tells the story of a young woman, who wakes up in a cryogenic pod. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up there. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare."



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Following up his immensely entertaining Crawl, Alexandre Aja is back with a survival thriller marking his return to a French-language film. Led by Mélanie Laurent, Oxygen follows a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic unit with no memory. Quickly running out of oxygen, she must find a way to remember who she is in order to survive. Ahead of a May 12 release on Netflix, the first trailer has now landed, setting up this frightening scenario.

“I remember reading Christie LeBlanc’s script when it appeared on the Black List and feeling like it captured such an intense experience of survival so well,” Aja tells Collider. It got me thinking of the best of Buried, but with a 28 Days Later twist. I was in it all the way, I pictured myself waking up locked in this cryo unit, trying to figure out who put me there and why, I felt her desperation.

Alexandre Aja has been confirmed to direct the slightly confusingly-titled O2 for Netflix. The survival thriller, which is presumably not linked to the mobile phone network of the same name, will be shot in the French language, and is currently expected to arrive on Netflix in mid-2021. Production has now started for the feature, a positive sign given the recent Covid-19 delays to the entertainment industry.

O2 will star Mélanie Laurent, best known for turns in Inglourious Basterds and 6 Underground, as well as the repeatedly-delayed Tenet, as a woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit without her memory. The character then has to piece together her memories in order to escape the chamber before her oxygen runs out. Aja was originally set only to produce, with Franck Khalfoun of Maniac directing, but he’s now taken over directorial responsibilities as well.

Furthermore, Laurent’s role was reportedly first linked to Noomi Rapace,...

After book-ending the last decade with the immensely enjoyable Piranha 3D and Crawl, Alexandre Aja is now kicking off this decade with a survival thriller marking his return to a French-language film. Led by Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, and Malik Zidi, the film, which has already begun shooting, is titled O2 and has been picked up by Netflix for a release in mid-2021.

The script by Christie LeBlanc, which made the Black List, tells the story of a young woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up sequestered in a box no larger than a coffin. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare. After the impressive thrills of the small-scale Crawl, Aja seems to be in the same one-location wheelhouse here. Prior to Laurent taking the lead,...

Vincent Maraval produces through his Getaway Films banner; project stars Mélanie Laurent.

Production has started today (July 23) in France on Alexandre Aja’s survival thriller 02 for Netflix.

The project stars Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric and Malik Zidi, and is based on a Black List script by Christie LeBlanc.

The film is produced by Wild Bunch CEO and Getaway Films partner Vincent Maraval alongside Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide. Aja also acts as producer alongside longtime associate Gregory Levasseur.

Laurent plays a young woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit. She doesn’t remember who she is or how...

Netflix has begun production on O2, a French survival thriller to be directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Melanie Laurent. Getaway Films’ Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide are producing the Black List script by Christie LeBlanc. The film will be released on Netflix in mid-2021. Mathieu Amalric and Malik Zidi have also joined the cast.

This is a project that previously had Noomi Rapace attached to star for director Franck Khalfoun and with Aja producing (Wild Bunch International kicked off sales at the Efm). Prior to that, Anne Hathaway was in the mix. The most recent switch-up marks Aja’s return behind the camera on a French-language project after such U.S.-based films as Crawl, The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha 3D. Aja will also produce alongside longtime associate Gregory Levasseur.

O2 tells the story of a young woman who wakes up in a medical cryo unit.

Netflix has boarded “O2,” a French survival thriller directed by Alexandre Aja, whose credits include “Crawl,” “The Hills Have Eyes” and “Piranha 3D.”

The film, which marks the return of Aja to a French-speaking project after a 15-year career in the U.S., is produced by Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide for Getaway Films.

Mélanie Laurent will headline the film, alongside Mathieu Amalric (“The French Dispatch”) and Malik Zidi (“Play”).

Aja also acts as producer alongside his longtime associate Gregory Levasseur. The film will be released on Netflix mid 2021.

David Kosse, VP, international original film, and Gaëlle Mareschi, creative manager of international original film, Netflix, said that Aja would be “taking us on a thrilling and unexpected ride physically, but also emotionally, bringing his imagination to another level.”

Based on Christie LeBlanc’s original script which was on The Black List, “O2″ tells the story of a young...

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Casting

Noomi Rapace will star in the thriller “O2,” which will launch sales next week at the European Film Market in Berlin through Wild Bunch International.

Franck Khalfoun is directing and Alexandre Aja is producing and supervising artistic direction. CAA Media Finance will represent domestic rights.

Echo Lake Entertainment, 42 and Wild Bunch International are also producing. The script by Christie LeBlanc was on the 2016 Black List. The story revolves around a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic medical pod and finds herself alone with no memory. She has 90 minutes of oxygen left and must figure out how to save herself.

Rapace achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium book series, which included “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,...

“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” actress Noomi Rapace is set to star in the thriller “O2” from producer Alexandra Aja about a woman trapped alone in a pod with only 90 minutes of oxygen, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Franck Khalfoun is directing the film from a script by Christie LeBlanc that appeared on the 2016 Black List.

Rapace will play a woman who wakes up from a cryogenic slumber trapped in a medical pod all alone and with no memory of who or where she is. But she discovers she only has 90 minutes of oxygen left in the pod and must discover how to escape and how she ended up in the pod before she suffocates.

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CAA Media Finance is handling domestic sales for “O2” and will present the movie to buyers at the European Film Market.

Exclusive: Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) is attached to star in contained Black List thriller O2, which has Franck Khalfoun (Amityville: The Awakening) directing and Wild Bunch International aboard for sales.

Vincent Maraval’s Paris-based outfit will begin discussing the fun genre project with buyers next week at the Efm in Berlin. Crawl and The Hills Have Eyes reboot writer-director Alexandre Aja is producing and supervising artistic direction. CAA Media Finance will rep domestic.

Echo Lake Entertainment, 42 and Wild Bunch International are also producing. Written by Christie LeBlanc, the script was a buzzed-about prospect on the 2016 Black List.

The pic centers on a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic medical pod, alone, with no memory, and no way out. All she knows is that she has 90 minutes of oxygen left and must figure out how to save herself, while discovering who she really is, who put her there, and most importantly – why?...

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Anne Hathaway is set to star in “O2,” a sci-fi thriller, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. Im Global is closing a deal to finance the film that will begin shooting this fall. Christie LeBlanc wrote the script for “O2,” in which Hathaway will play a woman who wakes up inside a cryogenic chamber with no knowledge of how she got there. She has to escape the chamber before the air runs out. Also Read: Anne Hathaway and James Corden Perform Rom Com With 12 Songs, 9 Sets and No Cuts (Video) The Oscar winner will produce alongside her manager.

Anne Hathaway is stocking up on O2.

The actress will star in the sci-fi thriller, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed, as a woman who mysteriously wakes up inside a cryogenic chamber and must escape before her air supply runs out.

Christie LeBlanc wrote the script, which is largely devoted to a single performer, and marks her feature film debut. Suzan Bymel and Hathaway are producing with Echo Lake's Adam Riback and James Engle, and Im Global's Stuart Ford and Greg Shapiro will also be producers. Im Global is financing the $10 million project, and CAA is representing domestic rights. No director is currently attached, and production...

Exclusive: Anne Hathaway will star in O2, a contained thriller with sci-fi elements that is fast coming together for a fall shoot. Im Global is closing a deal to finance the film that will fall in the $10 million budget range. In the script by Christie LeBlanc, Hathaway will play a woman who wakes up inside a cryogenic chamber, with no memory of how she got there. She must escape the chamber before her air runs out. Its sci-fi elements make it a closer cousin to Gravity…...