Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have set up their next project. Deadline reports that Universal Pictures has optioned screen rights to The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, a new book by Michael Lewis that follows the efforts of a group of Americans that attempted to sound the alarm on COVID-19 at a time when many were underestimating its threat to the United States.
Lord and Miller are attached to helm the production while Amy Pascal will produce through her Pascal Pictures banner,…