As reported by Variety, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish announced the news on the company’s quarterly earning call, saying that this film is a big-budget offering for Paramount Plus that will skip theaters all together, just as Disney+’s Soul did.
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Wahlberg will play Evan McCauley in Infinite, a man who “is haunted by the fact that he demonstrates skills he has never learned and has memories of places he has never visited.”
After meeting a secret group known as the Infinites, he learns that his memories are real and that they are coming from multiple past lives. Joining Wahlberg will be Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Jason Mantzoukas, Rupert Friend, Toby Jones and Dylan O’Brien.
IGN exclusively revealed Infinite’s synopsis and logo last year – when it was scheduled to arrive in theaters on August 7, 2020 – and described a first-of-its-kind SXSW activation known as the ISM Hexadome Experience. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a cancellation of both SXSW and this event.
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Infinite is based on the novel The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Marikranz and looks to explore the idea of reincarnation and the implications of being reborn throughout generations while keeping all your memories.
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