Former Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group topper Nina Jacobson will produce the sci-fi thriller Dominion through her studio-based Color Force at DreamWorks Pictures.
Ben Ripley is writing the screenplay, which centers on a human who is chosen to command an army’s first-ever platoon of robotic soldiers.
The longtime studio executive said she sparked to the idea of Dominion because of the scope of the story. “It’s a film that will require a real visionary director, and it’s a project that has a lot of big-movie elements,” Jacobson said.
Ripley became an in-demand writer when his high-concept sci-fi time-travel spec Source Code sold to Universal Pictures, with Mark Gordon producing. He has several additional projects in development, including the supernatural horror screenplay WXYZ at Warner Bros. Pictures.
