John Boyega To Star In Gavin Hood’s The Test
Deadline is reporting that John Boyega will star in an adaptation of Silvain Neuvel’s The Test, which is set to be directed by Gavin Hood (Eye in the Sky).
Published in February 2019, the story is set in an authoritarian near-future and centers on a soft-spoken immigrant as he takes a citizen evaluation test while a brilliant young behavioral psychologist supervising the test must confront a terrorist group led by a far-right fanatic.
Boyega will play the young psychologist while Payman Maadi, best known for his roles in HBO’s The Night Of and the Oscar-nominated A Separation, is set to star as the soft-spoken immigrant.
In an official statement, Hood described the film as “a heart-pounding psychological thriller, set in an authoritarian near-future that grabbed me by the throat and left me reeling.”
The script for the project was adapted by Hood, known best for his Oscar-winning crime drama Tsotsi, while Erwin Stoff is attached to produce and Zev Foreman and Ilda Diffley are overseeing the film for Entertainment One.
Boyega is best known for his roles in Attack the Block, and in the Star Wars franchise as Stormtrooper-turned-rebel fighter Finn, appearing across all three films in the sequel trilogy. He’s also appeared in Detroit, Pacific Rim: Uprising, The Circle and Watership Down. He will next be seen in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and Naked Singularity