Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Fortuna
10/8/08 - Former Lost star Dominic Monaghan and Freddy Rodriguez star in Fortuna, an SF horror thriller, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Set in 2100, Fortuna envisions an Earth where a collapsed economy and climate crises have eliminated the middle class, leaving a few very wealthy and the teeming masses in severe poverty.  To give hope and avoid revolt, the elite create Fortuna, a mysterious game where one in a thousand wins a big payday and joins the upper classes. But their hidden goal to "reduce poverty" by 30 percent over 50 years comes with a deadly price tag.  Monaghan, Rodriguez and Fortuna writer-director Barthelemy Grossmann will play desperate men who play the game in a nearby tower, despite apprehensions that none of its contestants are ever seen again.  The six-week Fortuna shoot begins Nov. 10 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

AlienAlmanac.com 2008