Higher Ground, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, has joined Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind,” the film adaptation to the novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam, the company announced on Thursday.
Sam Esmail, the creator of “Mr. Robot,” will both write the adaptation and direct.
The film stars Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke and Myha’la Herrold.
The logline for the film is as follows: A family vacation on Long Island is interrupted by two strangers bearing news of a mysterious blackout.