
In January 2017, it was announced that Michael Peña would star in the role McAvoy had been courted for. In October 2016, Ben Young signed on to direct the film, with Johnston having left the project a while back. In January 2014, Joe Johnston signed on to direct the film, and in September 2016, it was revealed that James McAvoy was "in talks" to star. In December 2013, it was revealed that the screenplay for Extinction, written by Spenser Cohen, had been included in the 2013 Black List of the year's best unproduced scripts in Hollywood, as voted on by more than 250 studio execs.

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The soldier connects a cable between the two synthetics and Peter passes out, experiencing in detail what he had thought were visions of the future, but are actually memories of a past war fearing that android workers ("synthetics") might rise up against humans, the military attacked unarmed synthetics. At the soldier's guidance, Peter cuts open his own chest with a pocket knife, confirming that he is also a synthetic. To save Alice, she needs an alternate source of power: Peter himself. The soldier surprises Peter by revealing that Alice is a synthetic ( AI). David will evacuate their children to a subway station where a transport train awaits to take them all to an offsite base. Peter agrees to stay with the soldier to save Alice. As David's men drag the invading soldier off to execute him, he yells to Peter that he can save Alice. A medic examines Alice but informs Peter that he cannot save her. There, his boss David explains that the invasion has been expected for many years. Peter forces the soldier to carry Alice to the factory. To Peter's shock, the soldier removes his helmet and appears human.

As they regroup, the soldier from their apartment appears, having tracked them with a homing signal on the rifle Peter took. They make their way to a tunnel entrance to safely travel to the factory, but not before Alice is injured from a bomb blast. He is able to bypass the rifle's biometric authentication and kill the soldiers guarding the apartment building's exit. Peter, now armed with the soldier's weapon, leads his family out of the building.īased on his visions, Peter and his family agree to seek shelter at the factory where Peter works. The soldier pauses to examine the girl, which allows Peter and Alice to immobilize the soldier. An armored alien soldier breaks through the barricade and finds Lucy hiding under a table.

Peter and Alice barricade their apartment amid the sounds of slaughter from ground troops. That night, invading spaceships open fire on the city, causing significant damage. This prompts Peter to believe his visions are of an upcoming invasion. He reluctantly visits a clinic to receive psychiatric help, only to find a patient there who reveals that he is having the same visions, and that the psyche would only suppress these visions. This causes him to have a strained relationship with his wife, Alice, and his daughters Hanna and Lucy. Peter, an engineer, has recurring nightmares in which he and everyone he knows suffer through violent, alien invasion-like confrontations with an unknown enemy.
