Star Trek Veterans Reunite in Sci-Fi Feature Life 2.0, Now Heading to Buyers
OneTwoThree Media has started worldwide sales on Life 2.0, a science-fiction feature that brings two Star Trek veterans back together on screen, according to Deadline.
Worldwide sales means the company will offer the film to distributors in countries around the world. The push comes ahead of the American Film Market, the deal market where buyers and sellers trade the rights to films before they reach cinemas or streaming services.
The film was written and directed by Michael Dorn, who also stars in it. For Dorn, it is his feature directing debut. He is best known to many viewers as Worf, the Klingon officer he played across several Star Trek series and films.
Dorn is joined by Marina Sirtis, Michelle Hurd and Dominic Keating. Life 2.0 is the first science-fiction feature to reunite Dorn and Sirtis since Star Trek: Nemesis, which came out in 2002. Sirtis played Deanna Troi alongside Dorn's Worf in the Star Trek: The Next Generation era.
Producing credits go to Emily Corcoran for Cork Films and to Dorn himself for Sabrejet. The whole film was shot in the United Kingdom.
OneTwoThree Media is also handling international sales for two other titles. Time Travel Is Dangerous!, directed by Chris Reading, is narrated by Stephen Fry and stars Johnny Vegas, Jane Horrocks, Sophie Thompson and Mark Heap. Brian Blessed voices an octopus monster in the film, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival. The company has also taken on The Black Box, directed by Vitor Cardoso and Ricardo R. Marques.
Film sales companies usually take a film to a market like this to find out who wants to buy it. OneTwoThree's own listing shows Life 2.0 as one of its selections for the American Film Market, and the company offers buyers a screener, a preview copy of the film, on request. No buyers or deal terms for Life 2.0 have been announced so far.
For a general audience, the story is a reminder of how a film gets from a finished cut to a screen. A sales company first has to find the buyers. Then the deals, for cinemas, television or streaming, decide where and when the film can be seen in each country.
