Lashana Lynch to Star in Sci-Fi Feature ‘Optimize’ for Paramount, Lindsey Anderson Beer (Exclusive)

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Lashana Lynch has found the optimal next role. The actor is attached to star in Optimize, a sci-fi feature from filmmaker Lindsey Anderson Beer.

Paramount is making the project with Beer’s Lab Brew banner as part of the filmmaker’s first-look deal with the studio. According to the logline, Optimize centers on an “average woman” who “utilizes an AI assistant to optimize all facets of her life, but soon finds that the AI’s pursuit of perfection comes at too high a cost.”

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Before she was the director of projects such as Pet Sematary: Bloodlines and the screenwriter behind features such as Chaos Walking, Anderson Beer attended Stanford, where she studied artificial intelligence and robotics. That experience came in handy in crafting Optimize, first as a short story and now as a feature.

Lynch is currently in theaters with Paramount’s Bob Marley: One Love, in which she plays Rita Marley, wife of the iconic musician. The film has exceeded expectations at the box office, where it delivered an $81 million global opening. Lynch’s other credits include Captain Marvel, The Woman King and James Bond feature No Time to Die, which marked Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007. Coming up, she has The Day of the Jackal, a Sky and Peacock series also starring Eddie Redmayne.

Anderson Beer is repped by CAA, Daniel Cohan at Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Shelter PR, and Cheryl Snow at Gang Tyre. Lynch is represented at CAA in the US, BWH Agency in the UK, Color Creative, Narrative and Sloane Offer.

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