Tom McCarthy's untitled feature preps shoot for Sony Pictures Classics

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all worldwide rights to Tom McCarthy’s untitled feature that is scheduled to begin production at the end of February.

Based on Nathaniel Rich’s book Losing Earth, Untitled Tom McCarthy Film is described as “a dramatic, darkly comic, true story” about 20 experts who gather in Florida in 1980 to draft a statement to Congress about what to do about climate change. The logline concludes: “Easier said than done.”

Thomas Bidegan, Noé Debré, and McCarthy adapted the screenplay. Sony Pictures Classics will co-finance and the producers are Jonathan King, David Levine, Jonathan Schwartz, Nick Shumaker, and Bard Dorros for Anonymous Content, Jim Whitaker, McCarthy for Slow Pony, and Mary Aloe of Aloe Entertainment.

A long list of executive producers includes Alex Gibney, Wendy Schmidt, Richard Perello, and Robert Kessel for Jigsaw Productions, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for Artists Equity, Alex Lebovici for Hammerstone Studios, Bidegan, Debré, and Rich, Billy James Parrott, Laurene Powell Jobs and Davis Guggenheim for Concordia, Andrew Lauren and Blye Faust for Andrew Lauren Productions, Rob Rosenheck for Galisteo Media, and Rae Baron for Slow Pony.

The production is dedicated to the late Anonymous Content founder Steve Golin. Sony Pictures Classics and Anonymous Content negotiated the deal with CAA Media Finance on behalf of the producers.

McCarthy’s directing credits include the Oscar-winning Spotlight, Stillwater, and The Station Agent.