Aaron Paul joins Alexandre Aja’s The 9th Life of Louis Drax

Last Updated on July 22, 2021

Emmy winner Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”) will join Jamie Dornan in Alexandre Aja’s next film, THE 9th LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX, according to Deadline.com. We last reported on the fantasy-thriller back in August.

Louis Drax is a boy like no other. He is brilliant and strange, and every year something violent seems to happen to him. His psychologist is baffled, and his mother lives in constant panic. He has always managed to survive — to land on his feet, like a cat. But cats have only nine lives, and Louis has used up eight, one for every year.

On his ninth birthday, Louis goes on a picnic with his parents and falls off a cliff. The details are shrouded in mystery. Louis’s mother is shell-shocked; his father has vanished. And after some confusion Louis himself, miraculously alive but deep in a coma, arrives at Dr. Pascal Dannachet’s celebrated coma clinic.

Was the fall a mere accident? If anyone knows, they’re not telling. Until one day, still deep within his coma, Louis meets the bandaged figure who calls himself Gustave, and begins to tell his tale…

Paul is set to play Louis’ father, while Dornan is playing Dr. Pascal. No one has yet been cast in the titular role.

The adaptation of Liz Jensen’s novel was penned by Aja’s HORNS star Max Minghella. Shooting commences next month in Vancouver.