Deadline is reporting that Amblin Partners has acquired film rights to Carrier, the hit sci-fi-thriller podcast created by audio studio QCode and Dan Blank.
Tony, Grammy and Emmy-winner Cynthia Erivo, fresh off her two Oscar nominations for Harriet, is attached to star and will reprise her role from the podcast. Blank will also write and direct the film.
Erivo will play Raylene, a truck driver who accepts an off-the-books long hall trucking assignment to cover for her ill father. She soon realizes that her mysterious cargo is a threat to the world and various forces begin targeting her to control or destroy it.
Erivo will also produce, along with Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Midnight Special) and QCode partner Rob Herting. Fred Berger and David Henning will executive produce.
Amblin Partners’ President of Production Jeb Brody and Creative Executive John Buderwitz will oversee production for the studio, which is coming off three Oscar wins and $290M+…
