Laurence Fishburne to Join Cast of THE COLONY

According to the Hollywood Reporter, actor Laurence Fishburne is in final talks to join the cast of THE COLONY, an indie feature film which will soon begin shooting in Toronto.

The sci-fi thriller will tell the story of "a group of underground survivors after the next Ice Age fending off an invasion of feral cannibals." The film will be directed by Jeff Renfroe and will be based on a script which he co-wrote with Patrick Tarr, Pascal Trottier and Svet Rouskov.

Production is scheduled to begin on February 22nd.

Fishburne is an Emmy Award-winning American actor of screen and stage, as well as a playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, and as singer-musician Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It. He became the first African American to portray Othello in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaption of the Shakespeare play.

Fishburne won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Two Trains Running (1992) and an Emmy Award for Drama Series Guest Actor for his performance in TriBeCa (1993).