'Captain Fantastic' Director Matt Ross to Helm 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow'
Matt Ross took the leap from acting to directing and turned in the critically acclaimed Captain Fantastic. Now, his next project is on the cards, in the form of a science fiction thriller titled Tomorrow and Tomorrow. It's based on the novel by Tom Sweterlitsch.
Entertainment 360 and Mark Gordon of The Mark Gordon Company have teamed on the project, bringing it to Tristar where it sold competitively. The book, first published in 2014 by Penguin, follows John Dominic Blaxton, a man who lives in a virtually reconstructed city that in reality has become uninhabitable, trapped in ruin and ash for the past decade. Dominic inhabits his virtual world surrounded by the buildings, parks, and the people, including his wife and unborn child. In the midst of his cycle of despair, he starts to explore cold cases from the archives from before the city as in ruins, and he finds himself obsessed with a woman whose every appearance has been intentionally deleted.
“The triumph of ‘Captain Fantastic’ is that it is at once funny, emotional and thought provoking,” says Tristar President Hannah Minghella. “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.”
“‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ is prescient, it posits a world not so dissimilar from today,” says Ross, “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. Lynette and I couldn’t be more excited to collaborate with Hannah to translate this book into the complex and relevant film we all believe it can be.”
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