CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Director to Adapt Sci-Fi Thriller TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
Captain Fantastic director Matt Ross has signed on to direct a new sci-fi crime thriller for Tristar. The film will be an adaptation of the novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Tom Sweterlitsch. Set in the near future, Tomorrow and Tomorrow is set in a near future in which the city of Pittsburg has been destroyed but recreated digitally in a virtual reality called the Archive. A survivor who lost everything spends his time in the Archive solving old murders. When he finds a murder victim who someone has tried to erase from the Archive, the mystery leads him into “the heart of a nightmare more horrific than anything he could have imagined.”
Captain Fantastic was Ross’s directorial debut, and it was, well, fantastic. It was one of my very favorite movies last year, and it scored Viggo Mortensen a very well-deserved Oscar nomination. I am pretty much excited to see anything Ross is interested in directing. If you haven’t seen Captain Fantastic yet, you may be familiar with Ross’s work as an actor, particularly as Gavin Nelson on Silicon Valley. He is an all-around talented guy, and in a statement he said of this new project:
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow is prescient, it posits a world not so dissimilar from today, a direction we are all clearly headed, where technology has altered the ways in which we interact with each other and the world around us. I hope to examine, following the book's lead, the degree to which our lives are enhanced, and deeply compromised, by the technology that is already an inseparable part of our daily existence."
Tri-Star’s Hannah Minghella explained why Ross is the right choice for the project:
“The triumph of Captain Fantastic is that it is at once funny, emotional and thought provoking. It's this ability to explore a thematic idea in a way that is both intelligent and entertaining that makes Matt such an exciting director for Tomorrow and Tomorrow. As a futuristic crime thriller, the book uses the near future to reflect on timely questions about our world today and how virtual reality impacts actual reality. It’s Matt's interest in exploring the complex intersection of technology with morality and love that makes his vision for Tomorrow and Tomorrow especially compelling."