Joe Wright Set To Direct The AI Thriller ALIGNMENT

Joe Wright, the director of Atonement and Darkest Hour is set to helm an AI thriller film titled Alignment for Fifth Season, with the script being written by Natan Dolan.The story follows a “cutting-edge tech company whose latest AI model begins manipulating global markets and stoking international conflict.“A principled board member and an out of his depth software engineer must race to convince their profit-obsessed colleagues to shut down their creation before it triggers a globally catastrophic event.”The spec script for Alignment at Fifth Season went through a highly competitive bidding war, and the hunt for a director is said to be “equally intense with half dozen directors in the mix for the job.” Wright’s take on the story obviously won over producers and now that he is on board the project the projects dev elopment will move fast because of how AI is such a hot button topic right not in the industry. It’s funny, I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine who works in finance a couple of months ago about AI and how it could effect the stock market. I’m curious to see what the vision for this film’s story will be.Source: Deadline

Mar 7, 2025 - 14:08
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Joe Wright Set To Direct The AI Thriller ALIGNMENT

Joe Wright, the director of Atonement and Darkest Hour is set to helm an AI thriller film titled Alignment for Fifth Season, with the script being written by Natan Dolan.

The story follows a “cutting-edge tech company whose latest AI model begins manipulating global markets and stoking international conflict.

“A principled board member and an out of his depth software engineer must race to convince their profit-obsessed colleagues to shut down their creation before it triggers a globally catastrophic event.”

The spec script for Alignment at Fifth Season went through a highly competitive bidding war, and the hunt for a director is said to be “equally intense with half dozen directors in the mix for the job.”

Wright’s take on the story obviously won over producers and now that he is on board the project the projects dev elopment will move fast because of how AI is such a hot button topic right not in the industry.

It’s funny, I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine who works in finance a couple of months ago about AI and how it could effect the stock market. I’m curious to see what the vision for this film’s story will be.

Source: Deadline