Dune filmmaker Denis Villeneuve will reteam with Legendary for an adaptation of Annie Jacobson’s cautionary tale Nuclear War: A Scenario.
After Christopher Nolan’s award-winning success with Oppenheimer, Denis Villeneuve, another of Hollywood’s premiere directors, will tackle the threat of nuclear fallout with an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize -finalist Annie Jacobsen’s non-fiction novel Nuclear War: A Scenario. The project finds Villeneuve reteaming with Legendary, with plans to complete the nuclear drama before going into production on the final film in the Dune trilogy, Dune: Messiah.
Deadline‘s exclusive report says the deal for Nuclear War: A Scenario is worth $500,000 against $1.5 million.
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