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Deadline report that Laura Dern, Noah Jupe & Benedict Cumberbatch will star in upcoming sci-fi drama Morning.

Set in a near future of eternal morning with artificial sunlight and where everyone takes drugs to go endlessly without sleep.

Apparently it's all work and no play, unless you're a rebel dreamer.

Synopsis below:

In Morning, the ambitious and driven Cathy (Dern) was an early advocate of a sleepless world, but as she and her son Danny (Jupe) pick up the pieces of their lives following the death of her husband Frank (Cumberbatch), she finds the universe she helped to build is starting to crumble around her, whilst memories she fought so hard to repress are bleeding into her waking life. As Danny is further drawn into a subversive underworld of dreamers, Cathy must confront her nightmares and fight hard not to lose her son.

While an interesting concept and one which could make for a great film, it feels out of sync with a world still in the grip of COVID.

Much of the planet has been housebound, not all jobs able to be performed remotely and we've seen the implementation of more robotic automation in factories and distribution centres.

That has certainly been disruptive but the world didn't completely grind to a halt.

A near future in which sleep is sacrificed so everyone can work endlessly feels slightly out of touch.

But the future is uncertain and stranger things have happened.

[ Main Image: Laura Dern in Jurassic Park. Credit: Universal Pictures via IMDb.com. ]

References

Grater, Tom and Wiseman, Andreas (January 31, 2022). Laura Dern, Noah Jupe & Benedict Cumberbatch To Star In Justin Kurzel Sci-Fi Drama ‘Morning’, HanWay Launches EFM Hot Pic. Deadline.