The two actresses replace Alicia Vikander and Daisy Edgar-Jones.
Just before the pandemic he teamed up with writer Noah Pink (Tetris) to tell the story.
Imagine began developing the script from Howards own story pages hed been building on over the years.
(L-R)Vanessa Kirby, Sydney sweeney, Jude Law, Ana De Armas & Daniel BruhlGetty/Steve Eichner//Michael Buckner/Deadline/Getty
AGC will continue international sales at this weeksAFMand co-reps domestic with CAA Media Finance.
Production will take place in Queensland, Australia with a small unit filming in the Galapagos.
Howards last film, the Thai cave rescue thrillerThirteen Lives, was also filmed in Queensland.
Co-financing the project are Stuart Fords AGC Studios, Library Pictures International and Elevate Production Finance.
Sweeney is repped by Paradigm and Hansen, Jacobsen, Teller.
Kirby is represented by CAA and Hamilton Hodell and JSSK, and managed by Linden Entertainment.
