Shawn Levy To Direct Amblin Entertainment’s ‘The Fall’
DirectorShawn Levyis once again making another film with Amblin Entertainment. The last time the filmmaker andSteven Spielberg’s production company teamed up, they produced what’s easily Levy’s most entertaining film:Real Steel. Their next collaboration is an alien invasion calledThe Fall.
Below, learn more about the Shawn Levy Amblin project.
Amblin locked upPete Bridges' script last summer. The script sold not long after Bridges' underwater survival taleResurfacecracked the “Black List,” a list of well-liked and unproduced scripts in Hollywood. The screenwriter’s take on an alien invasion is set in real time and in Atlanta, where a newly divorced couple must get out of downtown and back to their kids in the burbs. With the alien invasion and all going on, they must travel and survive on foot.
According toDeadline, “secrets and details of a marriage gone bad are unearthed along the way.” An alien movie tapping into some marital and family issues sounds like a project right at home with Amblin Entertainment. AfterReal Steeland producing and directing episodes ofStranger Things, it’s clear Levy knows how to properly go Amblin-esque. He’s hardly an ironic director, and there’s little place for irony in Amblin films. In addition to directing and producingThe Fall, Levy will rewrite the script.
The Fallisn’t the only alien movie the director has made. His production company,21 Laps, were behind last year’sArrival. In the three years sinceNight at the Museum: Secret of the Tombcame out, Levy took a step back from directing after making a total of 11 movies in 13 years, which is both baffling and impressive. After directing project after project, he turned his attention towards producing, which led toArrivalandStranger Things. His company also producedWhy Him?,Table 19, andFist Fight. Now, they haveThe Fallto develop.
Levy directed two more episodes ofStranger Thingsfor season 2, but we don’t know what feature film he’ll make next, althoughUnchartedis a possibility. Levysigned upto direct the long-gestating video game adaptation, whichJoe Carnahan(Narc) wrote, last year. The project was once dated to come out next month, but Sony has yet to announce a new release date. Carnahan has describedtheUnchartedmovieas having “four of the biggest, f***in' craziest action sequences,” which hopefully we’ll see Levy bring to life first instead of theStarmanremake.
