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SVOD giant Netflix has acquired global rights to Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery, starring Rooney Mara, Robert Redford and Jason Segel. The film will premiere on Netflix and also get a theatrical domestic run in 2017. This deal has been a few months in the making after the project was first brought to market at AFM last November, initially with Nicholas Hoult attached opposite Mara. Now that it has closed, it’s another high profile get for Netflix that shows its continued muscle in the indie film biz.

Directed by Charlie McDowell and written by McDowell and Justin Lader, The Discovery is a sci-fi story set two years after the discovery of an afterlife that has been scientifically proven where millions of people have taken their own lives in order to start over. Segel plays the son of the man (Redford) responsible for the discovery, and Mara plays a woman he falls in love with whose life is tinged by a tragic past.

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[Deft Beck]

Sounds like a very surreal, melancholy premise.

 

[Fuu]

What a premise. I'm intrigued.

 

[Lumpy Onion]

That is a damn interesting premise. Definitely seeing this one.

 

[Chojin]

Story sounds a lot like one of the short stories Chuck Palahnuik had in Haunted.

It probably won't be as funny though.

 

[Makonero]

I love the actors and the premise sounds intriguing. Looking forward to it.

 

[HStallion]

Well that is a cool idea and reminds me of some scifi stories I read a long time ago though for the life of me I can't remember titles or authors.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Pretty cool premise.

 

[IISANDERII]

Adding to my watch list on day one

 

[Akahige]

The director's previous film 'The One I Love' was fantastic, I have high hopes this will be great.

 

[Archer]

I'm down with it.