EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Kent ( The Babadook , The Nightingale ) has set sci-fi tale The Girl Who Was Plugged In as her next feature with Sophie Thatcher ( Companion , Heretic , Yellowjackets ) in dual lead roles.

Details have been unveiled on the long-awaited third feature from Kent as Goodfellas gears up to launch international sales at the upcoming Cannes market with CAA Media Finance and Range Select co-repping U.S. rights.

Kent has also written the screenplay which is adapted from a 1973 science fiction novella by American writer James Tiptree, Jr (real name Alice B Sheldon).

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1974, the surreal dystopian tale revolves around a woman who loses her soul to technology in an effort to be loved.

Thatcher plays disfigured, suicidal young protagonist P Burke who is hired by a mega tech corporation to virtually operate a beautiful but brainless ‘flesh body’ called Delphi, grown in a lab with the sole purpose of influencing the masses and selling products.

As Delphi’s…