If you were the person who discovered that the afterlife is, after all, real, and could be scientifically proven, what would you do? Find religion? Become depressed? Or use the knowledge to convince someone to fall in love with you? Because that’s what Nicholas Hoult might be doing with Rooney Mara in the new sci-fi drama **The Discovery{
Admittedly, that’s probably not his big plan, but he is a scientist who finds out that heaven – or some version of it – might be really real, and he will meet and fall for Mara, a woman whose past is tinged with tragedy. Bet his big discovery ties into that somehow. And sorry Kristen Stewart – if you thought you had the monopoly on sci-fi love stories co-starring Nicholas Hoult after Equals, you need to think again.
Charlie McDowell is directing this one, working with his The One I Love co-writer Justin Lader to once more produce the script. He’ll have the cameras rolling this January in Rhode Island.
Hoult has worked on Equals, which we mentioned above, and will be seen in Kill Your Friends hitting next week. He’s also back with his mutant colleagues in X-Men: Apocalypse, out on May 19 next year. Mara is on screens now in Pan and stars with Cate Blanchett in the acclaimed Carol, which is out on November 27.