Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to Daniel Suarez sci-fi thriller novel Influx, and the plan is to adapt it into a feature film. The studio has even set Bloodshot helmer David S.F. Wilson to direct it.
The book tells a big scale sci-fi tale in a futuristic setting, “focused on a protagonist who is a particle physicist perfecting a world-changing invention when his lab is infiltrated by terrorists. He’s held by a clandestine U.S. government department and when he refuses an offer to work with them, prison and torture at the hands of an artificial intelligence inquisitor awaits. He must escape and thwart what the government is doing. The project was sold based on a pitch.”
Yeah, that sounds like the kind of film the director of Bloodshot would take on next. Bloodshot had some cool moments, but for the most part. it was a pretty boring action film with a lackluster story and script. The movie should’ve been so much better because the comic is cool. All the most exciting stuff was put in the trailers. For Wilson’s sake, hopefully, Influx ends up being a better movie.
The film is being written by Zak Olkewicz, who just adapted the Japanese graphic novel Maria Beatle, under the title Bullet Train, for Fuqua Films.
Source: Deadline