For his subsequent movie, director Colin Trevorrow goes beneath the ocean.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, the director of Jurassic World and near-director on Star Wars Episode IX might be directing and producing Atlantis for Skydance. The filmmaker might be working from a script written by Charmaine DeGraté, an government producer on HBO’s Home of Dragon (who additionally wrote the fantasy drama’s fifth episode) and might be a author/co-EP on Disney’s upcoming collection Star Wars: The Acolyte.

In line with the outlet, the movie might be a fantasy journey flick whose premise is predicated on the titular fabled undersea civilization. Atlantis (the dominion) has been a fixture in popular culture for many years. Should you didn’t examine it in The Silmarillion or Animorphs, you noticed it come to life by means of TV and movies corresponding to Atlantis: The Misplaced Empire, Physician Who, or (technically) Black Panther: Wakanda Endlessly. And even taking one thing like Avatar: The Means of Water under consideration when it comes to water know-how, Trevorrow has a whole lot of affect to attract from. 

Atlantis was initially in manufacturing over at Common with a script from Alien: Covenant’s co-screenwriter Dante Harper. Trevorrow was hooked up to direct and develop the movie again then as effectively, and Skydance snatched it up as soon as Common opted to return the undertaking to the director. He and DeGraté have since retooled the undertaking, although it nonetheless accommodates the aforementioned premise that was in Harper’s script.

Notably, the movie might be Trevorrow’s first film after wrapping a bow on the Jurassic World franchise with final 12 months’s Jurassic World Dominion. The truth is, chances are you’ll keep in mind that he talked about desirous to make an Atlantis movie in late 2021, months earlier than Dominion’s launch. Past that, Atlantis will even function the director’s first authentic (learn: non-franchise) movie that he’s helmed since 2017’s The Ebook of Henry. As for DeGraté, this might be her first function movie undertaking. At time of writing, Skydance hasn’t hooked up a particular date to Atlantis.

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