Marina Sirtis is back in a Michael Dorn sci-fi feature as OneTwoThree Media launches worldwide sales for Life 2.0 ahead of the AFM. The move puts the film into the market before buyers gather around the event, and it does so with four Star Trek actors attached to a project built for international sales.
Life 2.0 lands in market
OneTwoThree Media is handling the worldwide sales push for Life 2.0, the feature written and directed by Dorn. It is his feature directing debut, which makes the sales launch more than a routine package move: the project now has to sell itself on a first-time director’s name, a cast built from familiar franchise faces, and a science-fiction setup that is easy to pitch but harder to finish well.
Dorn also stars in the film with Sirtis, Michelle Hurd and Dominic Keating. The story follows an operative in deep-space isolation with only an AI hologram for company until an enigmatic new companion arrives. An accident uncovers the truth about their origins, forcing a fight for survival against motives engineered back on Earth.
Emily Corcoran and Cork Films
Emily Corcoran for Cork Films and Michael Dorn for Sabrejet produced the film, and the deal negotiations for Life 2.0 were handled by Joey Dawson with Corcoran. That gives the title a clear sales-side structure before the AFM window opens, with OneTwoThree Media now using the project’s cast and premise as the commercial hook rather than waiting for a finished-release announcement.
The cast combination also matters because this is the first science-fiction feature to reunite Dorn and Sirtis since 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis. They were also in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard recently, but Life 2.0 is the cleaner commercial story: a reunion that travels across markets, not just a reunion for franchise followers.
UK shoot, Earth stakes
Life 2.0 was shot entirely in the UK, which keeps the production footprint tight and adds another selling point for buyers looking for contained sci-fi with recognizable names. For OneTwoThree Media, that matters because the company is bringing the film to market alongside Time Travel Is Dangerous! and The Black Box, widening the slate around the same sales cycle.
Time Travel Is Dangerous! is directed by Chris Reading, narrated by Stephen Fry, and stars Johnny Vegas, Jane Horrocks, Sophie Thompson and Mark Heap, with Brian Blessed voicing an octopus monster. The Black Box is a psychological thriller directed by Vitor Cardoso and Ricardo R. Marques and set in the Hollywood Hills during a graduation farewell party. Together, the three titles give OneTwoThree Media a broader package for the AFM run, but Life 2.0 is the title with the clearest franchise crossover and the most obvious international hook.
What happens next is straightforward: buyers now get the first real chance to price Dorn’s debut as a director against the built-in recognition of Sirtis, Hurd and Keating. If Life 2.0 lands cleanly, the sales launch turns Dorn’s first feature behind the camera into the slate’s lead item rather than a side note.
