It’s back to the shiny world of science fiction for Will Smith (Gemini Man, pictured above), who is set to star in Resistor, a retitled adaptation of Daniel Suarez’s 2014 novel Influx. (Weird title change, no?) According to Deadline, this project has been in development for a while—long enough for two drafts of the script, a first one by Zak Olkewicz (Bullet Train) and the latest by Eric Singer (presumably the one who co-wrote Top Gun: Maverick, and not the drummer from Kiss). Four years ago, S.F. Wilson was attached to direct, but at present the film does not have a director.
Deadline notes that the plot details are “under wraps,” but one can draw some conclusions from the book synopsis:
Physicist Jon Grady and his team have discovered a device that can reflect gravity—a triumph that will revolutionize the field of physics and change the future. But instead of acclaim, Grady’s lab is locked down by a covert organization known as the Bureau of Technology Control.
The bureau’s mission: suppress the truth of sudden technological progress and prevent the social upheaval it would trigger. Because the future is already here. And it’s [sic] rewards are only for a select few.
When Grady refuses to join the BTC, he’s thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison housing other doomed rebel intellects. Now, as the only hope to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age, Grady and his fellow prisoners must try to expose the secrets of an unimaginable enemy—one that wields a technological advantage half a century in the making.
Resistor does not yet have a release date.
