Ana de Armas, Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Daniel Brühl Board Ron Howard’s Survival Thriller ‘Origin of Species’
Ron Howard has assembled the cast for his upcoming Origin of Species, and it includes Oscar nominee Ana de Armas, Oscar winner Alicia Vikander, two-time Oscar nominee Jude Law, and BAFTA nominee Daniel Brühl.
Per Deadline, the film’s description puts it as “a darkly comic tale of murder and survival, set around a group of eclectic characters who abandon civilization for the Galapagos. They are all searching for the answer to that ever-pressing question that plagues us all: what is the meaning of life.” It’s based on two independent retellings of the true events.
Ron Howard will direct, coming off his recent critical success with Thirteen Lives; Tetris‘ Noah Pink wrote the script. The project is financed by Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, which is co-developing along with Howard’s Imagine Entertainment and CAA Media Finance. Filming is scheduled to begin in the last quarter of 2023 in Queensland, Australia. AGC Studios will be bringing it to the Cannes market, where some of the hottest packages of the last few months are seeking distribution.
Despite the WGA strike causing havoc across the industry, as Deadline points out, there is an unprecedented amount of hot projects hitting the South of France, but some sellers might have some questions pertaining to what they can and cannot do on set. The volume of projects is significant enough to force some budgets to go down in an attempt to be sold.
Ana de Armas most recently appeared in Apple’s Ghosted, and will headline next year the first John Wick spin-off film Ballerina. Alicia Vikander starred last year in HBO’s Irma Vep limited series and has Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand coming up, which co-stars Jude Law. The Fantastic Beasts actor most recently appeared in Disney Plus’ Peter Pan & Wendy and will play a Force wielder in this year’s Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. Brühl most recently appeared in Best Picture nominee All Quiet on the Western Front and will next be seen in Lone Scherfig’s The Movie Teller.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
