Lord Miller, the production company behind Academy Award-winning filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, is set to produce a feature adaptation of Forrest Brazeal’s upcoming debut novel, Paradox Inc., for Universal Pictures.
Academy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher, best known for the documentary Navalny and this year’s Tuner, is attached to direct. Matthew Robinson, whose recent credits include Netflix’s genre-bending The Last House and Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, is writing the screenplay. Roher and Robinson are also collaborating on the film’s treatment.
Paradox Inc. centers on an unlikely rivalry between a scrappy startup and a dysfunctional Big Tech giant, both racing to develop the world’s first consumer time machine. Whoever gets there first could gain control over reality itself. But as the competitors soon discover, time travel may not work quite the way Silicon Valley expects.
Brazeal brings firsthand experience from the technology world to his debut novel. He previously worked at Google during the height of the AI and cryptocurrency booms and co-founded technology marketing firm Freeman & Forrest. He has also built an audience through YouTube videos and webcomics that satirize the culture and absurdities of the tech industry.
Paradox Inc. will be published by Penguin Random House on January 19, 2027. The feature adaptation brings together Lord Miller’s distinctive comedic sensibility with Roher and Robinson’s filmmaking and genre credentials, positioning the project as a high-concept take on technology, corporate competition and the consequences of attempting to rewrite reality.
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