Joseph Gordon-Levitt Directing AI Thriller For Rian Johnson’s T-Street; Anne Hathaway To Star
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot package coming together quickly: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to direct an untitled AI thriller for T-Street Productions, the production company of Rian Johnson & Ram Bergman, with Anne Hathaway to star, sources tell Deadline.
No word on plot details yet, but we hear Gordon-Levitt wrote the script with Kieran Fitzgerald, who previously co-wrote his 2016 Oliver Stone movie Snowden. Both share ‘story by’ credit with Natasha Lyonne, the star of Johnson’s hit human-lie-detector series Poker Face for Peacock.
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The project is the latest in a long line of collaborations for Gordon-Levitt, Johnson, and T-Street. Gordon-Levitt’s friendship and creative partnership with Johnson dates back to the latter’s 2005 directorial debut Brick, a high school neo-noir starring Gordon-Levitt, which is now a cult classic. Subsequently, Gordon-Levitt went on to star as a younger version of Bruce Willis in Johnson’s sci-fi actioner Looper, later guest starring on Poker Face. T-Street’s Bergman produced Gordon-Levitt’s 2013 feature directorial debut, Don Jon, with Johnson also giving feedback on the script and reviewing multiple cuts of the film.
Gordon-Levitt and Hathaway also have history, as both co-starred in 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises for director Christopher Nolan, with whom Hathaway is now set to reteam on a new film for Universal.
Amidst all the concern around town as to how artificial intelligence will disrupt business and displace jobs, the technology’s rise has clearly become a major fascination for storytellers. Last month, Fifth Season paid seven figures for Alignment, a hot AI spec from Natan Dotan, which Makeready will produce.
Gordon-Levitt starred opposite Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore in Don Jon, a romantic comedy-drama that grossed over $40 million. More recently, he created, wrote and directed Mr. Corman, an underrated dramedy for Apple, in which he starred as a San Fernando Valley public school teacher. Upcoming, he’ll be seen starring in the Mark Heyman-directed horror film Pendulum, to be produced by Darren Aronofsky.
Hathaway has assembled a really packed and impressive slate over the last year. Coming off of Michael Showalter’s hit Amazon romance The Idea of You, she’s set to reteam with both filmmaker and studio on Verity, an adaptation of the novel from buzzy romance novelist Colleen Hoover. She’s also in business with Amazon on a film adaptation of Caro Claire Burke’s hot novel Yesteryear, which she’ll star in and produce, following the studio’s acquisition of the property over the summer in a bidding war. Next up, she’ll be seen starring opposite Ewan McGregor in David Robert Mitchell’s Warner Bros genre pic Flowervale Street, which hits theaters on May 16, 2025. Recently attaching to star opposite Adam Driver and Jeremy Strong in James Gray’s crime thriller Paper Tiger, she also has David Lowery’s A24 pop melodrama Mother Mary in the can and shoots Nolan’s new film for Uni next year.
T-Street inked a two-film producing deal with Warner Bros earlier this year and has Poker Face S2 coming up. Johnson wrapped on Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, his third Knives Out film overall and second for Netflix, in August.
Gordon-Levitt is represented by WME and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Hathaway by CAA, Entertainment 360, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Johnson by CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols; Fitzgerald by WME, Novo Entertainment, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; and Lyonne by CAA and Schreck Rose Dapello.
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