Vertical Entertainment Picks Up Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Parallel’ Starring Danielle Deadwyler, Aldis Hodge And Edwin Hodge
Deadline reports that Vertical Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Parallel, a new sci-fi thriller starring Danielle Deadwyler, Aldis Hodge and Edwin Hodge.
Directed by Kourosh Ahari from a screenplay by Jonathan Keasey and the Hodge brothers, the film is slated for release in theaters later this year.
Currently in post-production, Parallel is a remake of Lei Zheng’s award-winning Chinese film Parallel Forest that marks the first under the Hodges’ new banner, Hodge Brothers Productions. Pic tells the story of Vanessa (Deadwyler), who takes refuge at her family’s lake house to grieve after suffering the loss of her child. Accompanied by her husband, Alex (Aldis Hodge), and his brother, Martel (Edwin Hodge), Vanessa attempts to regain her sense of normalcy after the tragedy. But soon after their arrival, she experiences an aberration when she is attacked by a parallel universe’s version of herself. Faced with the reality that multiverses exist, she must reconcile the fact that these parallel gates will either hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.
Parallel is produced by Sean Lydiard, Jaylen Moore, Edwin Hodge, Aldis Hodge, Keasey, Elliot Michael Smith and Ann Zhang. Pic is exec produced by Richie Doyle, Raja Collins, Jovanna Burke, Deadwyler, Lei Zheng, Chengxi Li, Alex Bretow, Randall J. Bacon and Joseph Lanius, as well as Vertical’s Peter Jarowey, Rich Goldberg and Kristin Harris, and the BondIt trio of Luke Taylor, Tyler Gould and Mathew Helderman.