Jennifer Lawrence has joined The Flood, a science-fiction film that Zach Cregger is preparing as his next project after Resident Evil. The Oscar winner’s involvement comes as Cregger moves toward a story set far from Earth rather than immediately making another installment of his successful video game adaptation.
Despite sharing its name with an alien threat familiar to Halo players, The Flood has no connection to that franchise. Cregger has revealed little about the production beyond its deep-space setting and science-fiction genre. Dread Central described a premise with similarities to Alien: a spacecraft commander and her crew follow an unusual transmission originating on a remote planet.
Their investigation brings them to an extraterrestrial object that disrupts their perception of time and reality, threatens their mental stability and puts them up against an intelligence beyond their understanding. Resident Evil has earned both strong reviews and box-office success, but Cregger is not proceeding directly to a follow-up, and whether he will return for one remains uncertain.
