Joel Kinnaman is heading back to the dangerous world of sci-fi after making his claim to fame in roles like RoboCop and Suicide Squad.
Kinnaman is set to star in They Found Us, a new alien abduction thriller from Neill Blomkamp. The film is based on an original screenplay by Moon Knight’s Jeremy Slater and will be produced by Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen for Temple Hill Entertainment.
In They Found Us, a father (Kinnaman) and daughter undertake a camping trip in the Utah wilderness to heal their broken relationship. Attacked by a hostile extraterrestrial lifeform, their lives, not just their relationship, are at stake as they fight with a humanoid beast to stop their abduction to an unknown and terrifying alien world.
Producer Wyck Godfrey hypes the project, stating: “The otherworldly horror and breathless suspense at the center of Jeremy’s script is merely the backdrop for an all too relatable and emotional story of a father and teenage daughter grappling with their differences and working through their estrangement.”
Kinnaman is best known for his time as Rick Flag in both 2016’s Suicide Squad and the 2021 quasi-reboot The Suicide Squad. The actor has starred in The Informer, The Killing, Robocop, and the criminally underrated Apple TV+ series For All Mankind. Kinnaman recently wrapped production on The Silent Hour and will next star in John Woo’s Silent Night and opposite Nicolas Cage in Sympathy For The Devil. They Found Us will shoot later this year in Australia.
