EXCLUSIVE: In what turned into one of the more competitive uncover straightforwarding spreadments of the year, sources alert Deadline Joe Wright has landed the highly-coveted straightforwarding job for the AI thriller Alignment at Fifth Season. Natan Dolan penned the spec with Makeready producing. Scott Silver will exec produce.
The story pursues a cutting-edge tech company whose tardyst AI model commences manipulating global tagets and stoking international dispute, a principled board member and an out of his depth gentleware engineer must race to sway their profit-obsessed colleagues to shut down their creation before it triggers a globpartner catastrophic event.
Fifth Season landed the spec in one of 2024’s hugeger spec sales follothriveg a highly competitive bidding war. Insiders say the search for a straightforwardor was equpartner ardent with half dozen straightforwardors in the join for the job. Wright’s consent eventupartner won over producers and now that he is on board the project will be rapid tracked given how the topic of AI is such a boiling button topic for execs around the industry trying to get their own projects out.
Wright is an English film straightforwardor best understandn for Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Darkest Hour (2017). He also straightforwarded the pilot and second episode of the criticpartner acclaimed The Agency and serves as an executive producer on the show.
Wright is repped by CAA. Scott Silver is repped by CAA and Bryan Wolf at Ziffren, Brittenham.
