Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo is subsequent set to star in an adaptation of creator Adrian Tchaikovsky’s sci-fi motion thriller “Saturation Level” at Common.

Minnie Schedeen (“Exoplanet,” “Demon of Brownsville Highway”) will adapt the screenplay based mostly on British science-fiction and fantasy author Tchaikovsky’s e book.

Erivo will star as Dr. Jasmine Marks, who leads a search and rescue mission into The Zone — a bit of rainforest alongside the equator with a local weather inhospitable to clever life. The movie’s logline explains: “As she pushes additional into the wilderness, Dr Marks discovers the Zone is much deadlier than initially believed and never all types of clever life are essentially human.”

Along with starring within the movie, Erivo will even produce the film by way of her Edith’s Daughter manufacturing firm with Solome Williams. Edith’s Daughter inked a first-look cope with Common final fall, increasing the Tony, Grammy and Emmy-winning star’s relationship with the studio after Erivo starred as Elphaba within the uber-successful movie adaptation of the Broadway musical, “Depraved.” The movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, together with finest image and Erivo for finest actress, and gained two Oscars. The second chapter, “Depraved: For Good,” arrives in theaters on Nov. 21.

Michael Bay and Brad Fuller additionally produce “Saturation Level” by way of their Platinum Dunes banner’s first-look cope with the studio. Alex Ginno will govt produce and oversee the mission for Platinum Dunes; the corporate’s movies, which embrace the “A Quiet Place” franchise, the “Purge” motion pictures and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” have grossed greater than $3 billion on the worldwide field workplace.

Common Photos’ senior VP of manufacturing improvement Ryan Jones and director of manufacturing improvement Christine Solar will oversee the mission for the studio.

Erivo is repped by UTA, Leisure 360, Peikoff Mahan and the Lede Firm. Bay is repped by Wealthy Prepare dinner at Vary Media Companions. Fuller is repped by UTA and Sloane Provide Weber and Dern.

Tchaikovsky — whose vast number of work additionally consists of the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA (British Science Fiction Assn.) award-winning sequence “Kids of Time” — is represented by Simon Kavanagh and Oliver Cheetham on the Mic Cheetham Company and UTA.

Schedeen — who tailored her brief story ‘Expolanet’ as a movie for Amazon with Matt Tolmach producing and Gina Prince-Bythewood connected to direct — is represented by UTA, Untitled and Ziffren Brittenham.