Pierce Brosnan Will Age at an Accelerated Rate in New Sci-Fi Drama YOUTH
Pierce Brosnan is set to star in an upcoming sci-fi drama titled Youth. The movie is based on a 2016 short film of the same name, and the writer and director of that short, Brett Marty, is set to helm the feature film.
Marty co-wrote the script for the film with Josh Izenberg and Amelia Whitcomb, and it’s going to tell a fascinating story.
The movie is set in the near future where “Renewal” has become the world’s hottest (and most expensive) commodity, and it’s a procedure that rewinds your body’s biological clock back to its prime. “Joel (Brosnan), an ad-tech engineer, is about to retire at age 70, after a lengthy career. Not wanting to lose him, his company pays for him and his wife Alice to Renew — a luxury promising a second chance. Alice emerges from the operation in her 20s, but for Joel, the procedure goes tragically wrong. Rather than make him younger, his aging begins accelerating rapidly, and his remaining years evaporate into mere weeks. Trapped in a decaying body, and watching his 45-year marriage disintegrate, Joel becomes desperate enough to force another, more dangerous procedure. Uncovering the dark origins of the technology along the way, Joel must somehow stay alive long enough to reveal to the world what is happening, before it is too late.”
I love the concept of this story, and it’s going to make a great film for Brosnan to be a part of. There are a lot of layers in the story to play with here, and it’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out.
Brosnan is also set to play the king in Sony’s Camila Cabello-led Cinderella adaptation. He’ll next be seen in the Netflix film Eurovision, A24’s False Positive, and Renny Harlin’s The Misfits.
Here’s the trailer for the original short film:
Source: Deadline