Up-and-coming actor Harris Dickinson ("Beach Rats")
has landed a lead role in Fox's upcoming big screen adaptation of Darkest Minds.
Based on Alexandra Bracken's popular young-adult novel
series, the film takes place after a mysterious disease called IAAN killed most of America's
children, while mutating the remaining survivors, giving them superpowers such
as telekinesis or telepathy.
Harris will play Liam Stewart,
a survivor capable of telekinesis who teams-up with the story's protagonist Ruby
Daly played by Amandla Stenberg (Rue in "The Hunger Games").
Book Synopsis:
"When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday,
something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her
parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent
to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived
the mysterious disease that had killed most of America’s children, but she and
the others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they could
not control.
Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.
When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. She is on
the run, desperate to find the only safe haven left for kids like her—East
River. She joins a group of kids who have escaped their own camp. Liam, their
brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for
him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.
When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its
mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at
nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced
with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at having a
life worth living' to."
Kung Fu Panda's Jennifer Yuh
Nelson is directing from a script by Chad Hodge.
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