“Gambit” & “Chernobyl” Duo Plan “Sparrow” – Dark Horizons

“The Queen’s Gambit” writer/director Scott Frank will team with “Chernobyl” director Johan Renck on a new limited series adaptation of Mary Doria Russell’s sci-fi novel “The Sparrow” for FX.
Published in 1996, the story follows a group of Jesuit priests and scientists, led by linguist Father Emilio Sandoz, that makes the first contact with extraterrestrial life.
The Vatican then backs a secret mission to a faraway planet to prove God’s existence throughout the universe.
However, the mission ends…

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