The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Golden Globe winner Idris Elba and directed by Baltasar Kormakur (Everest, Adrift).
David Goyer, Kevin Turen, Russell Ackerman, John Schoenfelder, and Landis will serve as producers on Deeper, which is being described as similar to Gravity and The Martian.
Elba will next be seen in the spinoff Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw as the villain and is currently filming Working Title and Universal’s adaptation of Cats playing the feline Macavity.
MGM initially paid seven figures to acquire the rights to the script from Landis a few years ago.