Vanessa Kirby films Liminal in New York with brown hair
vanessa kirby is filming Liminal in New York this month, and the set photos leave little doubt about the movie’s tone: brown hair, a dark jumpsuit and a gun. The Apple-backed science-fiction thriller has already moved into production after being announced in March.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II On Set
Kirby is starring opposite Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who was pictured in more typical clothing with funky shades. That visual contrast does more than sell the look of the film; it signals how heavily Liminal is leaning into character and world-building rather than a straightforward action setup.
Louis Letterier is directing the project, with Justin Rhodes writing the film version. Apple has greenlit Liminal, which puts the movie into the company’s growing film pipeline without a release window attached yet.
Telepaths And Psychic Powers
Liminal is based on the Telepaths graphic novel by J Michael Straczynski, a six-issue series that ran in 2021 and 2022. The source material is set in a world where 1 in 10 people gain psychic powers, then follows police officers who can suddenly read people’s minds and people who fear they will be hunted because of those abilities.
That setup gives Kirby and Abdul-Mateen a built-in tension point to play off on screen: enforcement on one side, fear on the other. For Apple, the adaptation also keeps the project in a lane that combines genre spectacle with a premise that already comes with a ready-made hook.
Kirby’s December Switch
Kirby will appear as Sue Storm in Avengers: Doomsday in December, which makes Liminal the next major on-set look shift before that larger franchise turn lands. For viewers tracking her range, the brown-hair transformation and weapon-heavy imagery mark a clear step away from the cleaner public image she usually carries.
For now, the useful detail is simple: Liminal is no longer just a title from March. It is in motion in New York, with a cast, a director and source material that already define the film’s identity.
