Ultra: Shailene Woodley in Ultramarathon Thriller

Shailene Woodley stars as Eve, an ultramarathon runner coping with grief by competing in the Badwater 135. She is pursued by a mysterious runner in white while battling fatigue and injury.

The Divergent and Big Little Lies actress will play Eve, an ultramarathon jogger that, complying with the unfortunate fatality of her double sibling, enters the most intense competitors on the planet: The Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, a 135-mile race with Fatality Valley. In the midst of the run, battling physical fatigue and mental injury, Eve notifications she is being pursued by an unidentified runner in white that is closing in on her.

Production Details for Ultra

Ultra is being generated by Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read for Savage Rose Films (Whatever Anywhere At One Time, American Honey) and Iris Torres (In Dubious Fight). Exec manufacturers are Andrew Kortschak and Lisa Ciuffetti for End Hint (The History Of Audio), and Toby Halbrooks for Seafarer Bear (The Environment-friendly Knight, A Ghost Tale).

Woodley, known for her duties in the Divergent franchise, the John Green adjustment The Mistake in Our Stars and the Emmy-nominated collection Big Little Lies, most lately showed up in Potsy Poncirol’s wordless action-thriller Motor City alongside Alan Ritchson, Ben Foster and Pablo Schreiber.

Director’s Personal Connection to Ultra

“My daddy was a distance runner, left incapacitated by a stroke. Running, the important things that provided him life, was taken from him. He experienced, and lastly surrendered,” Negri claimed in a statement. “While discovering my psychological footing, I expanded to come to be an ultrarunner, because completing 2 100-mile races, countless 50 milers and several marathons. It’s via screening my limitations in each of these legendary races that I refine loss– physical discomfort being the best allegory for the psychological. Although my sorrow is always with me, I’ve discovered I’m solid sufficient to manage it, to handle anything. I created Ultra from this intense personal trip, utilizing running as the cinematic vehicle to show the ways in which we process sorrow– whether we lug it with us by our side, or see it in the rearview mirror, we’re never able to elude its sticking around existence.”