Shawn Levy To Direct The Fall

Director Shawn Levy and has 21 Laps production banner continue to reap the fruit of a landmark 2016.  Deadline is reporting that Shawn Levy and 21 Laps are joining forces with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin to stage The Fall, a sci-fi movie that tells its alien invasion through the lens of a squabbling, newly-divorced couple. Pete Bridges is the creative mind behind the original spec script, though we understand Levy will now oversee a quick rewrite before the cameras begin rolling.

Story-wise, here’s the fleeting logline, as relayed by Deadline: The Fall follows a “newly divorced couple during an alien invasion making a dangerous trip from the city to their house in the suburbs where their children are stranded. Secrets and details of a marriage gone bad are unearthed along the way.”

Further details on The Fall‘s production schedule weren’t disclosed at this time, but we’ll keep you right up-to-date as this story unfolds.