Juan Antonio Bayona set for mysterious sci-fi project at Warner Bros.

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Juan Antonio Bayona, who recently directed the tsunami drama THE IMPOSSIBLE, and before that the Guillero del Toro-produced THE ORPHANAGE, has lined up his latest project: an unitlted sci-fi epic, which will be produced by Warner Bros.

Unfortunately, we don’t know anything about the plot; WB is keeping that sucker under wraps. What is clear is that it was written by Eric Roth, the Oscar-winning scribe of FORREST GUMP and MUNICH, and that GANGSTER SQUAD producer Will McCormick is overseeing the pic.

Bayona’s star is rising thanks to THE IMPOSSIBLE, which earned star Naomi Watts an Oscar nomination and has grossed an impressive $119 million worldwide so far. (That tsunami sequence alone is worth the price of admission.)

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