Caleb Landry Jones (Dracula: A Love Story), Peter Sarsgaard (The Batman), and Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) have signed on to star in Zero Ok from director Michael Almereyda (Tesla).
The movie is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel. Almereyda wrote the screenplay. Manufacturing is scheduled to start early 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil.
Zero Ok follows a younger man drawn into the designs of his tech-billionaire father, touchdown in a distant desert compound the place the rich search to increase human limits by cryonics and radical science. The girl who binds these two estranged males submits to the mission with combined feelings, as all of them face challenges linking love, life, and loss of life.
The movie might be produced by Anthony Katagas for Maintain Your Head, Rodrigo Teixeira for RT Options, and Renée Frigo, with Giorgos Karnavas alongside Almereyda. That is Teixeira and Katagas’ fourth movie collectively and Katagas’ fifth collaboration with Almereyda. UTA Unbiased Movie Group will symbolize North American gross sales, with Heretic Movies overseeing worldwide gross sales. Riseborough is an Govt Producer.
“I really feel fortunate to have gathered such a particular and masterful forged, and to reunite with Peter and Sean,” Almereyda stated in a press release. “DeLillo’s ebook captures a selected mixture of realism and dream logic, wonderment and dread, and we’re desperate to translate this right into a film.”
Almereyda’s credit embody Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke, Marjorie Prime, Experimenter, and Hamlet.
The acquisition of Zero Ok’s movie’s rights was brokered by Bethany Haynes at Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo LLP and Renée Frigo of Oak Avenue Photos, with Amy Schiffman engaged on behalf of Don DeLillo.
