Director Michael Almereyda has found the leads for his long-gestating movie adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel Zero K.
The film will star Caleb Landry Jones, Peter Sarsgaard and Andrea Riseborough, with production cameras set to start rolling in early 2026 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Almereyda, having penned the screenplay, will center the Zero K adaptation on a young man drawn into the designs of his tech billionaire father in a remote desert compound where the wealthy seek to outwit death using cryonics and radical science.
The woman who binds these two estranged men submits to the project with mixed emotions, as they all face challenges linking love, life and death, according to a synopsis from the producers. Landry Jones is known for roles in Get Out, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Nitram, which earned him the best actor prize at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Sarsgaard will also star in John Ashpool’s upcoming series Neuromancer and he also appears in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film The Bride!, based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. And Riseborough appeared in Birdman, Mandy, Possessor and The Death of Stalin and also stars in Jan Komasa’s Good Boy, which bowed in Toronto.
For Zero K, Almereyda will reteam with Sarsgaard after their collaboration on Experimenter, and with cinematographer Sean Price Williams after he shot the films Marjorie Prime and Tesla.
“I feel lucky to have gathered such a distinctive and masterful cast, and to reunite with Peter and Sean. DeLillo’s book captures a particular mix of realism and dream logic, wonderment and dread, and we’re eager to translate this into a movie,” Almereyda said in a statement.
The Zero K film will be produced by Anthony Katagas, Rodrigo Teixeira, Renée Frigo, Giorgos Karnavas and Almereyda.
Landry Jones is represented by Anonymous Content and UTA, while Sarsgaard is represented by Anonymous Content and WME. Riseborough is represented by CAA, Independent Talent Group and Untitled Entertainment.
