{"id":865955,"date":"2026-09-30T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865955\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:32:09","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-has-joined-zach-creggers-mysterious-sci-fi-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865955\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence Has Joined Zach Cregger’s Mysterious Sci-Fi Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Resident Evil<\/a> is a smash hit<\/a>, and Zach Cregger, who also made Barbarian and Weapons, looks to continue his streak\u2014this time with an original film said to skew more sci-fi than his usual horror fare. It\u2019s called The Flood, and a big piece of the puzzle just fell into place: Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence will star.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> reports that Lawrence has come aboard the film, which has a release date of August 11, 2028. Cregger will write and direct his own story. We don\u2019t have an official plot description yet, but Cregger has been dropping hints; earlier in September, he told Deadline<\/a> that the idea for The Flood came to him in a rush amid his eagerness to work with Steven Spielberg, whose Amblin Entertainment is among its producers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was watching this movie, and somebody in the movie was entering an abandoned spaceship,\u201d Cregger explained. \u201cAnd my wife was like, \u2018There\u2019s nothing scarier than being trapped in space.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s interesting. Maybe there\u2019s something here.\u2019 And then this character goes into the ship, and they find something that was pretty weird and scared them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I was thinking, \u2018What would be weirder and scarier than that? What could happen in this scenario that would freak me out more than this?\u2019 And it\u2019s never happened to me before, but in a flash, I had the whole movie explode in front of my eyes. I just knew what it could be; I think I probably stood up and was like, \u2018I have it!\u2019 It was a total ridiculous moment, but I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019re excited to see Lawrence lead The Flood, which sounds like a far better sci-fi showcase for her talents than the problematic Passengers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out the best movies and TV shows<\/a> to stream this month and all the upcoming sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books<\/a> that should be on your radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resident Evil is a smash hit, and Zach Cregger, who also made Barbarian and Weapons, looks to continue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,54606,206,147040,34726],"class_list":["post-865955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-jennifer-lawrence","tag-movies","tag-the-flood","tag-zach-cregger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}