After delivering a
great performance in Alex Garland's outstanding sci-fi thriller Ex_Machina,
Alicia Vikander is set to star in writer/director James Ponsoldt's (The
Spectacular Now) The Circle opposite Tom Hanks.
The Circle is based
on author Dave Eggers' 2013 novel of the same name and follows a recent college
graduate named Mae Holland played by Vikander, who lands a job at a powerful
tech company called The Circle where she strikes a relationship with the
company's co-founder played by Tom Hanks. What begins as the captivating story
of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of
suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the
limits of human knowledge.
When Mae Holland is
hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she
feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a
sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media,
banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one
online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the
open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms
for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s
modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there
are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and
clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the
Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to
work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the
campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her
shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins
as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a
heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history,
privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
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