Glen Powell is teaming up with Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail for an original science fiction feature.
Esmail is behind Tesseract, the sci-fi project that has landed at Amazon MGM and United Artists.
Powell is in negotiations to star in the project and to produce with Dan Cohen, his partner at the duo’s Barnstorm production banner.
Esmail is producing Tesseract via his label, Esmail Corp, along with that company’s Chad Hamilton. UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt are also producing.
Like most Esmail projects, the plot is being kept under wraps. The project does call for two other lead roles, both females, according to sources.
And the project, while not greenlit, is eyeing a summer shoot in London and Hungary, according to sources.
Powell is currently shooting season two of Chad Powers, his sports comedy Hulu series. The actor last starred in The Running Man, Paramount’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel directed by Edgar Wright.
Esmail is best known for Mr. Robot, the cyberthriller series that broke out Rami Malek and ran on USA Network from 2015 to 2019. While a name in the TV space, he in recent years has been making strides in the feature world that attract big name talent. He co-wrote and directed Leave the World Behind, a thriller which starred Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali and Kevin Bacon and proved to be a major hit for Netflix. He is in post on Panic Carefully, a Warner Bros. thriller which counts Roberts, Elizabeth Olsen, Eddie Redmayne and Joe Alwyn amongst its cast.
Powell is repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro. Esmail is repped by CAA and McKuin Frankel.