News Tesseract Sam Esmail’s Next Sci-Fi Movie Will Star Glen Powell And that’s about all there is to know about Tesseract—so far By Molly Templeton | Published on January 16, 2026 Screenshot: Universal Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Universal Pictures If you, like me, are a lightly obsessive fan of Sam Esmail’s series Mr. Robot, you are probably always curious about what the man is going to do next. He didn’t get far with his Battlestar Galactica reboot (which I very much wanted to see). His take on Metropolis got scrapped during the 2023 writers’ strike. He did manage to make an eerie adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s novel Leave the World Behind—a movie which crops up in my mind every time I see too many Teslas on one block. But that was in 2023. I have been waiting for a new Esmail project ever since. And now that, if slightly vague, news has come. The Hollywood Reporter says that Esmail has a new sci-fi project in the works called Tesseract, and it’s set to star the now-ubiquitous Glen Powell (Twisters, pictured above). Esmail will write and direct, and the film “has landed at Amazon MGM and United Artists” (producer Scott Stuber recently signed a deal with Amazon MGM). THR offers only one other detail: “The project does call for two other lead roles, both females, according to sources.” The movie is not greenlit, but may shoot over the summer in Europe. It’s not a lot to go on, but that title is intriguing, at least to Marvel fans and Madeleine L’Engle readers (and, I guess, geometry fans?). This is simply Tesseract, not The Tesseract; that title belongs to an existing film based on an Alex Garland novel. Esmail has one project to finish before Tesseract gets going: the thriller Panic Carefully, which he also wrote and directed. It stars Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne, Elizabeth Olsen, Joe Alwyn, Aidan Gillen, Brian Tyree Henry, and Ben Chaplin, and reportedly involves the hunt for a cyber-terrorist. No release dates have been announced for any upcoming Esmail projects. Yet.[end-mark] The post Sam Esmail’s Next Sci-Fi Movie Will Star Glen Powell appeared first on Reactor.