{"id":240667,"date":"2026-01-16T04:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/240667\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:51:10","slug":"mystery-sci-fi-movie-to-star-glen-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/240667\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Sci-fi Movie to Star Glen Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/interviews\/3922916\/edgar-wright-on-the-running-man-and-lighting-a-spark-of-revolution-with-different-ending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Running Man<\/a> star Glen Powell is sticking with sci-fi; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/glen-powell-sam-esmail-tesseract-for-amazon-mgm-ua-1236475428\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a> reports that the actor is gearing up to team with \u201cMr. Robot\u201d creator Sam Esmail on mystery sci-fi feature Tesseract.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, MGM Studios, and United Artists\u2019 Scott Stuber have landed Tesseract, with Esmail writing and directing.<\/p>\n<p>Plot details remain under wraps at this time, other than it\u2019s an original sci-fi project from the helmer of 2023\u2019s apocalyptic psychological thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3785396\/leave-the-world-behind-trailer-netflix-brings-an-all-star-cast-into-the-apocalypse-this-december\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leave the World Behind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Powell is currently in negotiations to star in and produce Tesseract with Dan Cohen, his partner at the duo\u2019s Barnstorm production banner. That means that while the project isn\u2019t officially greenlit just yet, it\u2019s targeting a summer production start.<\/p>\n<p>As for Esmail, the filmmaker is best known for creating the popular cyberthriller series \u201cMr. Robot\u201d that ran from 2015-2019 and starred Rami Malek.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s currently in post on conspiracy thriller Panic Carefully starring Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Olsen, Eddie Redmayne, and Joe Alwyn.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more as it arrives.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Running Man star Glen Powell is sticking with sci-fi; THR reports that the actor is gearing up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,28331,85,46,397,129511,15628,129512],"class_list":{"0":"post-240667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-glen-powell","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-sam-esmail","14":"tag-sci-fi","15":"tag-tersseract"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}