Roher To Direct Lord Miller's 'Paradox Inc.' For Universal — SkimNews
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- Lord Miller is producing a Universal Pictures feature adaptation of Forrest Brazeal's debut novel 'Paradox Inc.,' about a scrappy startup and a dysfunctional Big Tech company racing to build the world's first consumer time machine.
- Daniel Roher, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the 2022 doc 'Navalny,' will direct and co-write a treatment with Matthew Robinson, who adapts the screenplay; Robinson's sci-fi horror 'The Last House' recently topped Netflix's charts.
- Forrest Brazeal brings insider credibility to the satirical premise — he worked at Google during the AI and crypto crazes and built a following skewering the tech industry via YouTube videos and webcomics; the novel releases via Penguin Random House on January 19, 2027.
- Lucy Kitada brought the book to Lord Miller; Chris Miller, Phil Lord, Aditya Sood and Kitada produce, with Brazeal exec producing, under Lord Miller's first-look deal with Universal, overseen by Ryan Jones and Christine Sun.
- Lord Miller is having a banner year — 'Project Hail Mary' became Amazon MGM Studios' highest-grossing film at $684M worldwide, and 'Spider-Noir' earned 11 Emmy nominations; 'Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse' releases June 2027.
- Roher is in post on the Netflix caper 'Positano,' starring Matthew McConaughey and Zoe Saldaña, and this year unveiled Focus Features doc 'The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist,' produced by Daniel Kwan and Jonathan Wang.
Why it matters: Lord Miller is pairing an Oscar-winning doc helmer with a satirical tech-industry novel from a Google veteran whose YouTube audience is already primed for the material. The deal runs through Lord Miller's first-look with Universal, the same studio pipeline that just hosted its $684M-grossing 'Project Hail Mary' and a likely awards contender.
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