Fox opens up Box

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

The man who brought us MEN IN BLACK, Barry Sonnenfeld (pictured), is in talks to direct a movie for Fox that sounds like it could have a ton of potential: THE BOX, which is a take on the famed myth Pandora’s Box.

Right now the film is being viewed as a “big event” type of movie, so the whole project is being fast-tracked. So the burden of pumping out a script before the pressure of the studio makes him crumble is Evan Spiliotopoulos. And apparently the story that Spiliotopoulos is working on revolves around a college grad with an uncertain future who is tricked into opening the mythical box, unwittingly unleashing the evils trapped within. He then must team with Pandora to save the world from destruction.

I’m hoping that the evil he opens up is played up and not down to a 4th of July audience, if it’s played up this film has some potential.