Universal’s adaptation of author Adrian Tchaikovsky’s sci-fi action thriller Saturation Point will star Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo (Wicked).

The film centers on Dr. Jasmine Marks, who leads a search and rescue mission into The Zone — a section of rainforest along the equator with a climate inhospitable to intelligent life. The film’s logline explains: “As she pushes further into the wilderness, Dr Marks discovers the Zone is far deadlier than initially believed and not all forms of intelligent life are necessarily human.”

Minnie Schedeen (“Exoplanet,” “Demon of Brownsville Road”) will adapt the screenplay.

Erivo will produce the movie via her Edith’s Daughter production company with Solome Williams.

Michael Bay and Brad Fuller also produce via their Platinum Dunes banner. Alex Ginno will executive produce and oversee the project for Platinum Dunes.

Universal Pictures’ senior VP of production development Ryan Jones and director of production development Christine Sun will oversee the project for the studio.