Caleb Landry Jones (Dracula: A Love Tale), Peter Sarsgaard (The Batman), and Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) have signed on to star in Zero K from director Michael Almereyda (Tesla).
The film is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel. Almereyda wrote the screenplay. Production is scheduled to begin early 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil.
Zero K follows a young man drawn into the designs of his tech-billionaire father, landing in a remote desert compound where the wealthy seek to extend human limits through cryonics and radical science. The woman who binds these two estranged men submits to the project with mixed emotions, as they all face challenges linking love, life, and death.
The film will be produced by Anthony Katagas for Keep Your Head, Rodrigo Teixeira for RT Features, and Renée Frigo, with Giorgos Karnavas alongside Almereyda. This is Teixeira and Katagas’ fourth film together and Katagas’ fifth collaboration with Almereyda. UTA Independent Film Group will represent North American sales, with Heretic Films overseeing international sales. Riseborough is an Executive Producer.
“I feel lucky to have gathered such a distinctive and masterful cast, and to reunite with Peter and Sean,” Almereyda said in a statement. “DeLillo’s book captures a particular mix of realism and dream logic, wonderment and dread, and we’re eager to translate this into a movie.”
Almereyda’s credits include Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke, Marjorie Prime, Experimenter, and Hamlet.
The acquisition of Zero K’s film’s rights was brokered by Bethany Haynes at Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo LLP and Renée Frigo of Oak Street Pictures, with Amy Schiffman working on behalf of Don DeLillo.
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