Adam McKay is gearing up to tackle his first new movie since 2021’s Don’t Look Up, as THR reports he has teamed up with Together writer/director Michael Shanks for a sci-fi comedy.

What We Know About the Project

Sony Pictures has picked up the project, with McKay directing and Shanks writing. Details are being kept under wraps, but it’s being described as a sci-fi comedy. McKay is producing with Todd Schulman through the pair’s Hyperobject Industries banner.

Adam McKay

Although this will be McKay’s first new movie since Don’t Look Up, it’s not like he hasn’t been trying to get other projects off the ground.

One was Average Height, Average Build, a serial killer dramedy starring Robert Downey Jr., Robert Pattinson, and Amy Adams. Netflix scooped up the project, which would have starred Pattinson as a serial killer who enlists a lobbyist (Adams) to change laws that would allow him to get away with murder more easily. Downey Jr. would have played a “retired cop who won’t give up on the murders, and the killer tries to prevent him from dogging his trail now that he’s hung up his gun. The serial killer turns himself into a cause celebre, a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington figure shielding his true motives.” However, the project was dropped.

McKay moved on to Greenhouse, a climate change movie starring Amy Adams and Sam Rockwell based on The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells. McKay said it was “probably the greatest film I’ve written,” but acknowledged that it was going to be a tough one to make happen.

Together

Shanks made his directorial debut with Together, a body horror film starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco. The pair play a co-dependent couple who relocate to the countryside only to discover that their devotion to each other may be even more extreme than they thought when their bodies start to merge. “What’s refreshing about Together, especially in comparison to more cerebral recent fare, is just how fun it is – which is the aspect that made this feel a little bit like an eighties film,” said our own Chris Bumbray. “It wants you to have a good time, and the audience I saw this will eat it up. Horror fans are going to have a blast.” You can check out the rest of his review right here.