by FilmInk Staff
Canadian author Iain Reid’s debut novel I’m Thinking of Ending Things was adapted by Charlie Kaufman as a love it/hate it Netflix Original, and his follow-up novel Foe is also going down the streaming route with Amazon backing a feature adaptation, which he will co-write with Garth Davis.
According to the press release, Foe is “set in the near future when corporate power and environmental decay are ravaging the planet. Foe tells the story of Hen [Ronan] and Junior [Mescal], a young, married couple living a solitary life on their isolated farm. One night, a knock on the door from a stranger named Terrance [Pierre] changes everything: Junior has been randomly selected to travel to a large, experimental space station orbiting Earth.”
The film will utilise the Victorian Screen Incentive and the Regional Location Assistance Fund, promising to inject $32 million into the Victorian economy and creating 950 jobs for Victorian cast and crew including four leading Head of Department roles.
The film is being produced by AC Studios, I Am That and See-Saw Films.
