Antoine Fuqua’s Infinite starring Mark Wahlberg has been moved to May 2021

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has already forced Hollywood to shift the majority of its slate to the end of the year or even into 2021, and Antoine Fuqua's INFINITE is no exception. The upcoming sci-fi film was slated to hit theaters on August 7, 2020, but Deadline has now reported that Paramount Pictures has moved the film to May 28, 2021.

The film is based on D. Eric Maikranz's novel "The Reincarnationist Papers" and stars Mark Wahlberg as a "self medicated near suicidal man haunted by having skills he never learned and visions of places he has never visited. He is rescued by a group called 'infinites,' who unlock his past life memories, in hopes he can thwart a member of the group with a terrible plan for humanity." Production on INFINITE wrapped up last year, but post-production is still moving forward with all relevant parties collaborating from home during the quarantine, although producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura admits that it's making things a little difficult.

It has been an extra challenge because we’re all in different places. It’s an inescapable truth that one of the things that happens in the editing room is the three of us, me, Antoine and our editor Conrad [Buff IV], will be standing there and we’ll make changes. And then one of us will come in later and as those other people are watching, it affects you. If it’s too slow, you feel it. You can feel the other person’s experience. That’s the part we’re having a hard time replicating. You might think it’s the perfect length, but you find ultimate judgment in the room, together, and that’s hard to do with phone calls. It’s weird, but when if Antoine and I have a whole bunch of ideas and we try them with the second editor, Conrad comes into the room and he doesn’t have to say anything. Because you know he’s watching and it makes you judge your work harder. So we now have more time, but we are dealing with a slower process.

Antoine Fuqua added that it's been, "a frustrating but enlightening experience about filmmaking. The need that we all have for each other in the creative process and the different perspectives we all bring into a room. In this case, you don’t get to bring all that into a room together and it can be tedious and frustrating. Lorenzo’s there, I’m here and Conrad’s at his place. We all watch it separately and then try to collectively come together on the feeling and experience of it. You have to be so zeroed in being home, because if we give Conrad our notes, it takes almost a day or two before we can get back into that particular scene. Normally, it’s immediate; we walk out of the room, Conrad does his work, and me and Lorenzo come back in and we experience it immediately and have a reaction to it. Now, it takes days." Despite the film's high octane action-sequences, di Bonaventura said that INFINITE has "real depth and it asks questions and it's kind of a mind-f**k in the best possible way. It really makes you think." In addition to Mark Wahlberg, INFINITE also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (DOCTOR STRANGE), Dylan O'Brien (THE MAZE RUNNER), Rupert Friend (Homeland), Jason Mantzoukas (JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3), and Toby Jones (JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM).