News Saturation Point Cynthia Erivo & Michael Bay to Adapt Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Saturation Point Universal Pictures will be adapting the novella from The Children of Time author. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 30, 2025 Erivo screenshot: Universal Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Erivo screenshot: Universal Pictures Universal Pictures has picked up Adrian Tchaikovsky’s 2024 novella Saturation Point and is set to make a feature adaptation, which will potentially be the start of a franchise. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that none other than Michael Bay (Ambulance!) and Cynthia Erivo (pictured above as Elphaba in the feature adaptation of Wicked) are attached to the project as producers. Saturation Point is a climate thriller where part of Earth has gotten so hot and humid that humans can’t survive there. Here’s the summary of the story, per Goodreads: Doctor Jasmine Marks is going back into hell.The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the “Zone,” is a growing band of rainforest on the equator, where the heat and humidity make it impossible for warm-blooded animals to survive. A human being without protection in the Zone is dead in minutes.Twenty years ago, Marks went into the rainforest with a group of researchers led by Doctor Elaine Fell, to study the extraordinary climate and see if it could be used in agriculture. The only thing she learned was that the Zone was no place for people. There were deaths, and the program was cut short.Now, they’re sending her back in. A plane crash, a rescue mission, a race against time and the environment to bring out the survivors. But there are things Marks’ corporate masters aren’t telling her. The Zone keeps its secrets, and so does Doctor Fell… THR also adds that “not all forms of intelligent life in the Zone are necessarily human.” Minnie Schedeen, the creator of The Beautiful Liar podcast series, will write the script for the adaptation, which will be her feature debut as a screenwriter. It’s not clear whether Erivo will also star in the film as well as produce, or where the project is in the development process.[end-mark] The post Cynthia Erivo & Michael Bay to Adapt Adrian Tchaikovsky’s <i>Saturation Point</i> appeared first on Reactor.