GOTG Star Karen Gillan And WESTWORLD's Aaron Paul Sign On For New Sci-Fi Thriller, DUAL

GOTG Star Karen Gillan And WESTWORLD's Aaron Paul Sign On For New Sci-Fi Thriller, DUAL

Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jumanji) and Aaron Paul (Westworld, Breaking Bad) have signed on to co-star in a new high-concept sci-fi thriller called Dual. Find out more after the jump...

By MarkCassidy - Apr 28, 2020 10:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: THR

Guardians of the Galaxy actress Karen Gillan and Westworld's Aaron Paul are set to play the leads in a new sci-fi thriller called Dual, which will also star Beulah Koale, Martha Kelly and Batman v Superman actor Jesse Eisenberg.

The premise sounds like a doozy: Gillan will play a terminally ill woman who decides to have herself cloned to ease the pain of her passing for her friends and family. But when she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone (also played by Gillan) decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.

There are no details on who Paul or the other cast members will play.

The movie will be written and directed by The Art of Self Defense helmer Riley Stearns, who will also produce alongside XYZ Films. The project, which is currently scheduled to shoot later this summer (that's obviously subject to change), is expected to be for sale at the agency-led virtual Cannes market.

There's not a whole lot more to report for the time being, but Dual certainly sounds like a very interesting concept, and the cast is top notch.

Keep an eye on CBM for updates.

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WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 4/28/2020, 10:13 AM
Did you really have to use Batman v Superman as a reference to Jesse Eisenberg's work?
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 4/28/2020, 10:15 AM
@WakandanQueen - Yes.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 4/28/2020, 10:17 AM
The Art of Self Defense was pretty good. On Hulu, easy watch.


This sounds like it could be fun.
tmp3
tmp3 - 4/28/2020, 10:34 AM
@BlackBeltJones - Felt a bit too derivative of Yorgos Lanthimos' style for me, but Eisenberg and Alessandro Nivola were both great
GhostDog
GhostDog - 4/28/2020, 11:56 AM
@tmp3 - Poots was good. The surrealism was super menacing here and kept getting weirder and weirder. It corresponded well with the themes about violence.
E4Nigma
E4Nigma - 4/28/2020, 10:19 AM
This sounds similar to The 6th Day.

HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 4/28/2020, 10:49 AM
@E4Nigma - I really enjoy that movie, always a fun and good watch.







E4Nigma
E4Nigma - 4/28/2020, 11:01 AM
@HeavyMetal4Life -

It's a good movie. I was big fan of Schwarzenegger growing up.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 4/28/2020, 11:05 AM
@E4Nigma - "I was big fan of Schwarzenegger growing up."

Me too, and I still am! He's my fave :-)
KWilly
KWilly - 4/28/2020, 10:33 AM


LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 4/28/2020, 11:07 AM
@KWilly -

Kumkani
Kumkani - 4/28/2020, 10:35 AM
Sounds pretty interesting
elgaz
elgaz - 4/28/2020, 10:44 AM
I have a load of Robert J Sawyer novels, and this sounds very similar (albeit with clones, rather than robotic bodies) to the snyopsis of Mindscan. "Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds the love that eluded him when he was encased in flesh - he falls for the android version of Karen, a woman rediscovering all the joys of life now that she too is no longer constrained by a worn-out body. But Karen's son sues her, claiming that by uploading into an immortal body she has cheated him out of his inheritance. Even worse, the original version of Jake has taken hostages on the far side of the moon where he had been consigned to die, demanding the return of his rights of personhood. In the courtroom and on the lunar surface, the future of uploaded humanity hangs in the balance."
Nebula
Nebula - 4/28/2020, 11:12 AM


You had me at "Karen Gillan" ;)
soberchimera
soberchimera - 4/28/2020, 11:37 AM
So, it's basically The Island.


dancingmonkey08
dancingmonkey08 - 4/28/2020, 2:59 PM
so, I like that "there has to be two Karen Gillan's" is becoming a thing

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I want Jumanji 3 to have two Karens too :D
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