Michael Almereyda sets ‘Zero K,’ Heretic handling international sales

Michael Almereyda is to write and direct Zero K, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s acclaimed 2016 novel, with Caleb Landry Jones, Peter Sarsgaard and Andrea Riseborough starring.

Production is set to star early next year in Sao Paulo. Greece-based Heretic Films is handling international sales and UTA Independent Film Group will represent the project for North American. 

Producers are Anthony Katagas for Keep Your Head, Rodrigo Teixeira for RT Features, Renée Frigo, Heretic’s Giorgos Karnavas and Almereyda. 

The project will reunite Almereyda with Sarsgaard, who starred in the filmmaker’s Experimenter, and cinematographer Sean Price Williams, who shot Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime and Tesla. Almereyda and Katagas previously collaborated on four films, including Cymbeline. 

The story follows the son of a tech-billionaire father who finds himself in a remote desert compound where the wealthy seek to extend human limits through radical science. 

Almereyda commented: “I feel lucky to have gathered such a distinctive and masterful cast, and to reunite with Peter and Sean. DeLillo’s book captures a particular mix of realism and dream logic, wonderment and dread, and we’re eager to translate this into a movie.”

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