Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts.
Beijing News (reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) On July 21, according to foreign media reports, Netflix won the new film "Leaving the World Behind" directed by "The Matrix" director Sam Esmeer (tentative translation, formerly known as Leaf The World Behind), which will be starred by Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts, which is the second cooperation after nearly 27 years after the release of "Gannet Assassination Order" in 1993.
Stills from "The Gannet Assassination Order".
It is reported that "Leaving the World Behind" is based on the novel, there have been more than a dozen film companies and streaming platforms want to win the project, and finally locked in Netflix, Apple and MGM three companies, it is reported that the book adaptation rights cost up to millions of dollars. In the end, Netflix won the project. Netflix also recently officially announced "Captain America" Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling starring "Grey Man", which will be directed by the Russo brothers, directors of "Avengers 3 and 4", with a budget of up to $200 million.
The suspenseful film focuses on two upper-class families—a white family and a black family. After a major power outage in the city, white families moved to live in suburban resorts for black families, and phones, television, radio, and the Internet were disrupted, so they had no way of knowing what was going on outside. Strange sonic booms shattered the tranquility of the countryside, animals began to migrate in strange ways, everyone's mental health began to disintegrate, and various problems followed.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan
Edited by Huang Jialing Proofreader Wei Zhuo
Source: Beijing News