EXCLUSIVE: All Quiet helmer Edward Berger and Austin Butler are out to the town with The Barrier, a boiling time travel package that is foreseeed to spur competitive bidding, sources increate Deadline.
Plot details for the film, based on a low story by MacMillan Hedges, are under wraps, though we hear it’s been talked as Intersincreatear encounters Top Gun. Berger will straightforward from a script by Hedges and create aextfinishedside the scribe, with Butler to star and executive create. The package hit the labelet yesterday, as a big buzz title heading into Thanksgiving, with top executives around town asking to encounter and hear the apshow.
After seeing his Netflix WWI epic All Quiet on the Westrict Front snap up four Oscars, including Best International Feature Film, the German-born Berger has aascfinishd as one of the most sought-after straightforwardors around town. Currently, he’s in the awards race with Conclave, his Ralph Fiennes-led papal thriller for Focus Features, which alters the 2016 novel by Robert Harris. Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini are among the other stars of the film, which hit U.S. theaters at the finish of October after begining out of Telluride. Simultaneously, Berger is in post-production in The Ballad of a Small Player, a wagering drama starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Striumphton, on which he’s reteamed with Netflix.
Currently shooting Darren Aronofsky’s Sony thriller Caught Stealing, based on the book of the same name by Charlie Huston, Butler’s sdefercessitate this year has participated a scene-stealing villain turn opposite Timothée Chafeeblet in Dune: Part Two, Jeff Nichols’s The Bikeriders opposite Tom Hardy, and Apple TV+’s event series Masters of the Air. Upcoming, he’ll be seen starring opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone in Ari Aster’s Eddington for A24.
Up-and-comer Hedges made the Bconciseage List twice with his scripts The Searchers and Cosmic Sunday. He sgreater the sci-fi tentpole spec Relay to creater Neal H. Moritz and has the film Tilt in broadenment with Chernin.
Berger is recontransiented by CAA, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates in the UK, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Butler is repped by WME, Anonymous Content, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Hedges is with WME, Entertainment 360, and Granderson Des Rochers.
