Omari Hardwick Joins Halle Berry In Netflix Sci-Fi Drama ‘Mothership’
Deadline is reporting that Omari Hardwick will join Oscar winner Halle Berry in The Mothership, a Netflix sci-fi adventure. John Ortiz and Molly Parker have also been added to the cast.
MRC Film, Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik and Netflix are producing the project with Berry and Danny Stillman serving as exec producers.
Oscar-nominated Bridge of Spies screenwriter Matt Charman is directing the film, which will mark his feature debut. Charman also penned the screenplay, which follows Sara Morse (Berry) one year after her husband mysteriously vanished from their rural farm. When she discovers a strange, extraterrestrial object underneath their home, Sara and her kids embark on a race to find their husband, father and, most important, the truth.
Hardwick is best known for starring in the hit Starz drama Power and currently can be seen in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead. Ortiz, whose recent credits include Horse Girl, SXSW drama The Fallout and the Netflix series Messiah. Emmy nominee Parker toplines the Netflix series Lost in Space and can be seen in its drama pic Pieces of a Woman.