Netflix Picks Up Legendary Sci-Fi Action Film ‘Spectral’ With James Badge Dale, Cory HardrictPosted by Wilson Morales
November 17, 2016
Source: Deadline
Deadline is reporting that Netflix has picked Legendary Pictures’ sci-fi thriller ‘Spectral,’ which stars James Badge Dale, Max Martini, Clayne Crawford, Emily Mortimer, Bruce Greenwood, and Cory Hardrict. Netflix has set it for a December 9 global release.
Directed by Nic Mathieu, the film centers on a brilliant DARPA scientist (Badge Dale) who embarks on a deadly mission with a Special Ops team of Delta Force soldiers into a battle-scarred, war-torn city, where mysterious phantom aggressors code-named Spectral have been causing inexplicable civilian deaths.
Emily Mortimer plays a CIA mission leader while Greenwood plays a high-ranking military official who briefs the heroes on a new kind of terror threat.
Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producers, with Jillian Share and Guy Riedel serving as executive producers. Sophia Sikora will also oversee the film for Legendary. According to TheWrap, the original treatment, which was described as a supernatural “Black Hawk Down,” was purchased from Ian Fried, though George Nolfi wrote the script with an assist from rewriter John Gatins.
The film has a score by Junkie XL (Batman V Superman and Deadpool). The futuristic weapons were produced by Peter Jackson’s Weta Workshop and the VFX was done by Weta Digital, overseen by Oscar winners Joe Letteri and Erik Winquist.
