Atlantis (Colin Trevorrow producing)

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‘Jurassic World: Dominion’s Colin Trevorrow Next Heading To ‘Atlantis’ With Universal Pictures

EXCLUSIVE: As he prepares to re-start production on Jurassic World: Dominion, director Colin Trevorrow is re-teaming with Universal Pictures on Atlantis, a thriller about the mythical city that Trevorrow and his Metronome Film Co. will produce.

Based on a story by Trevorrow and Matt Charman (Bridge Of Spies), Atlantis will be written by Dante Harper, whose scripts include the original spec All You Need Is Kill that became the Tom Cruise thriller Edge Of Tomorrow, Alien: Covenant and most recently Forever, scripted for Rogue One director Gareth Edwards.

Unlike previous incarnations of the mythical city as an underwater kingdom, Trevorrow’s Atlantis is set on a lost continent in the Indian Ocean between Africa, India and Oceania. It is a multicultural civilization with its own advanced technology.

Trevorrow first hatched it in late 2018, but kept the project under wraps to give his creative team — led by production designer Kevin Jenkins (Star Wars: Episode IX and Jurassic World: Dominion) — time to research and build the world before going to script.

Atlantis becomes Metronome’s second project at Universal. The first is Space Opera, a musical with producer Marc Platt based on Catherynne Valente’s book. Metronome is based in the UK, where Trevorrow has lived since 2016.

Senior Vice President of Production Sara Scott will oversee the project for Universal. Director of Development Jeff Gernert will oversee for Metronome. Metronome Production Executive Annys Hamilton will co-produce.

Trevorrow is represented by Verve and attorney Lev Ginsburg; Harper is repped by Management 360.

via Deadline

[JayTL]

We'll see. Not sold on the synopsis

[SmittysGelato]

I love mythical lost cities. Trevorrow isn't my favourite filmmaker tho. Colour me interested, but not super hopeful.

[BluBonnet]

Trevorrow still working on this

And there’s one more Metronome film in the ether that Trevorrow is also on deck to make: his long-gestating take on the myth of Atlantis. When I asked, “What’s the movie you’ve always wanted to make?,” it was this one.

“I really love ‘Atlantis,’ that’s the one I’ve always wanted to make,” he said. “Atlantis, not like an underwater thing, but the story of our first civilization that had a lot of the kinds of technology we have now, that had a true government and its own sets of morals. It fell into the sea and then we had to start all over again. That movie is essentially a bunch of young people trying to tell the people in charge, ‘You’re focused on the war, but actually what’s going to happen is that comet’s going to hit the earth and we’re all going to perish, pay attention to this.’ I feel like great sci-fi, great fantasy, it always snaps into what young people are feeling at a given moment.”

That film would also give Trevorrow the chance to tap into “the most rarefied air in storytelling”: to build an entirely new myth.” He’s not holding his breath just yet, though. “Will I ever get to it? I don’t know. Movies that cost a certain amount of money that are technically original are really hard these days,” he said. “So what I’ll have to do is make a couple movies that actually really work and then maybe that’ll be my reward. I know what I’m working for.”

How nice, I said, that you still consider making a movie its own reward. “To be able to make a story that you want to tell? Absolutely,” he said. “For some reason, I’m not burnt out on it and I don’t entirely know why, because I should be.”
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[Michael1989]

Ok I've always been intrigued about the possibility of an Atlantis actually existing and that had technology ahead of it's time. A film about it could/should be really good