Ewan McGregor, Lea Seydoux, and Christina Aguilera will all join forces later this year as their Tribeca Film Festivalcenterpiece selectionZoehas found a domestic distributor.
Director Drake Doremus confirmed Saturday at the films world premiere in New York City that Amazon Primehas purchased North American rightsto the sci-fi romance.
Amazons move comes as the first major acquisition of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, where the likes of Sarah Jessica ParkersBlue Night, Tessa ThompsonsLittle Woods, and Mary Elizabeth WinsteadsAll About Ninaare also slated for world premiere screenings ahead of securing global distribution deals.
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Zoetakes place in a futuristic world rife with cutting-edge technology that has narrowed relationships down to a science, with the results of a computerized test pairing together humans and, potentially, a new race of androids known as synthetics.
Two employees of a research facility responsible for perfecting the technology, Zoe (Seydoux) and Cole (McGregor), ultimately forge a relationship of their own against the backdrop of their groundbreaking work, though an accident ultimately drives a wedge between them and threatens the future of their unexpected coupling.
In addition to Aguilera, whoappears here in her first live-action film rolesince 2010sBurlesque,Zoes supporting cast includes Theo James, Rashida Jones, Miranda Otto, and Matthew Gray Gubler.
Doremus recent work includes the Kristen Stewart-starring sci-fi dramaEqualsand beloved indie romanceLike Crazyfeaturing the late Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones.
