Adam Driver Up For Jeff Nichols' Next Flick

Adam Driver has closed a deal to join "Take Shelter" and "Mud" filmmaker Jeff Nichols' now Untitled sci-fi film once called Midnight Special says The Wrap.

The story follows a father and his 8-year old son who go on the run when the dad realizes the boy has some kind of special powers. 

Driver's role isn’t known as yet.

Kirsten Dunst will play the female lead Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton also star.

The filn will be produced by Sarah Green and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, with Glen Basner and Christos V. Konstantakopoulos the exec producers.

Production will begin February 2014