{"id":523234,"date":"2026-03-06T20:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523234\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:51:08","slug":"matt-shakman-to-direct-tristars-ben-mezrich-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523234\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Shakman To Direct TriStar&#8217;s Ben Mezrich Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tristar-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tristar-pictures\" data-tag=\"tristar-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TriStar Pictures<\/a> has preemptively acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-last-orbit\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-last-orbit\" data-tag=\"the-last-orbit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Orbit<\/a>, a forthcoming book from New York Times bestselling author <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ben-mezrich\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ben-mezrich\" data-tag=\"ben-mezrich\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Mezrich<\/a>, inking a deal for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matt-shakman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-shakman\" data-tag=\"matt-shakman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Shakman<\/a> (The Fantastic Four: First Steps) to direct from a story adapted by Josh Friedman (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSlated for publication by Authors Equity in Q1 2027, The Last Orbit is speculative fiction about the asteroid YR4, which has a statistically significant chance of hitting Earth or the moon in 2032. The book is science real and imagines what a realistic international response would be as everyone has to come together in order to save the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/beau-flynn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beau-flynn\" data-tag=\"beau-flynn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beau Flynn<\/a> is producing on behalf of FlynnPictureCo., the company behind the upcoming live-action Moana, Netflix\u2019s second-most-popular film Red Notice, and more. Scott Sheldon will exec produce alongside Mezrich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEmmy-nominated for his directing on series WandaVision and The Great, Shakman is coming off of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, an MCU title starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn that grossed over $521M worldwide, opening last summer. Additional credits include Apple\u2019s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and Wild Things, the upcoming Siegfried &amp; Roy series for Apple TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA writer and producer known for his work in science fiction, Friedman was one of the writers on Shakman\u2019s Fantastic Four film and has also worked on the screenplay or story for projects like Steven Spielberg\u2019s War of the Worlds, Terminator: Dark Fate, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, and James Cameron\u2019s recent pair of Avatar sequels. In television, he\u2019s the creator and exec producer of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrequently adapted for film by Sony, Mezrich is the author of The Accidental Billionaires, the international bestseller that was adapted into the Academy Award-winning The Social Network written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher. He also penned The Antisocial Network, which was the basis for Craig Gillespie\u2019s film Dumb Money on the GameStop short squeeze of 2021. Selling over 11 million novels worldwide, he has received various industry awards, including a USC Scripter Award alongside Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShakman is repped by Untitled, CAA, and Yorn, Levine; Mezrich by CAA and WME for publishing; and Friedman by CAA and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: TriStar Pictures has preemptively acquired The Last Orbit, a forthcoming book from New York Times bestselling author&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,260682,260683,15530,105,260684,260685],"class_list":["post-523234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beau-flynn","tag-ben-mezrich","tag-matt-shakman","tag-technology","tag-the-last-orbit","tag-tristar-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}