Phil Lord and Chris Miller Set to Direct THE PREMONITION: A PANDEMIC STORY About the Early Days of COVID-19

Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to a new book titled The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, which will be about the early days of COVID-19 and the U.S. heroes who tried to sound the alarm in the early days of Covid-19 about the dangers of underestimating the deadly seriousness of the killer virus.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street) are set to direct and produce the film. This is a different kind of project for the directing duo, who are best known for directing wild and wacky comedies. Amy Pascal (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) is also a producer on the project, and the team is currently looking for a writer.

While this may interest some people, I have no interest in watching this kind of movie. I’ve already done a deep dive into it while it was happening learning everything I possibly could about it. I did my research, I saw the results of how everything played out, and I never want to revisit it again. I’m done.

The book was written by Michael Lewis, who also wrote The Big Short, and The Premonition focuses on “a series of medical visionaries who saw the dangers of an exponential Covid spread, based on the information that was coming from China, and by doing mathematical calculations, even as President Trump assured Americans they had nothing to worry about. The focus is in three main characters, a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee who work in the White House. In their own way, they tried to sound the alarm and work around bureaucracies like the CDC. Their efforts didn’t prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths, but it helped keep death counts lower than they otherwise could have been.”

The approach to the film will be in a tone similar to All the President’s Men, “focusing on the book’s distinctive characters who risked much in the hope of saving lives.”

Lord and Miller will start work on this movie after they complete Project Hail Mary, with Ryan Gosling starring for MGM. Are any of you interested in watching a movie about the early days of COVID-19?

Source: Deadline