It’s a good year to be Benedict Cumberbatch. High off the incredible success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, enjoying Oscar buzz for his role in The Power Of The Dog, and soon (but not soon enough!) to headline Sam Raimi‘s Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, the actor has already lined up his next role. He will star alongside Laura Dern and A Quiet Place‘s Noah Jupe in Morning, a sci-fi thriller from director Justin Kurzel.

Morning is set in a near future where society has a pill that does away with the need to sleep. With the added help of an artificial sun, there is no end to morning daylight, living and work. However, as a young generation grows up deprived of the world of sleep, they consider rebelling to reclaim their dreams.

Cathy (Dern) may have been an early advocate of a sleepless world, but as she and her son Danny (Jupe) pick up the pieces of their lives following the death of her husband Frank (Cumberbatch), she finds the universe she helped to build is starting to crumble around her, whilst memories she fought so hard to repress are bleeding into her waking life. As Danny is further drawn into a subversive underworld of dreamers, Cathy must confront her nightmares and fight hard not to lose her son.

Morning was written by Sam Steiner; Cumberbatch, Dern, Jayme Lemons, Adam Ackland, Leah Clarke and Marnie Podos are all aboard to produce. Kurzel, meanwhile is best known for directing True History of the Kelly Gang, Assassin’s Creed and 2015’s Macbeth, starring Michael Fassbender. His latest, Nitram, played in competition at Cannes and saw lead actor Caleb Landry Jones be awarded the festival’s Best Actor prize.