Hollywood is always ready to jump on current events for feature films and Academy Award winners Phil Lord & Chris Miller are set to do the same. As first reported by Deadline, Universal Pictures have snagged the rights to Michael Lewis’ new book The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, and have hired Phil Lord and Christopher Miller to direct.
Much like his book The Big Short, The Premonition focuses on several
“medical visionaries who saw the dangers of an exponential Covid spread, based on the information that was coming from China, and by doing mathematical calculations, even as President Trump assured Americans they had nothing to worry about. The focus is in three main characters, a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee who work in the White House. In their own way, they tried to sound the alarm and work around bureaucracies like the CDC. Their efforts didn’t prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths, but it helped keep death counts lower than they otherwise could have been.”
Deadline states that the tone of The Premonition will be similar to All The President’s Men, but with Lord and Miller’s involvement, you can’t help but think that a little of their trademark comedy added to the film.
