Magnet picks up 'Monsters' at South by Southwest

Magnet Releasing will distribute "Monsters" which marks Gareth Edwards' first feature, shortly after making its premier at South by Southwest. Edwards handled visual effects.

The science fiction film is produced by Allan Niblo and James Richardson of Vertigo Films.

The story tells of a NASA probe returning to Earth with samples of an alien life form and ending up crashing over Central America. Shortly after, new life forms start appearing and half of Mexico is quarantined. We follow a journalist who agrees to escort an American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safe U.S. border.

Edwards is known for his work at the helm of BBC's "Heroes and Villains" Attila the Hun with Rory McCann, Ian Barritt and Nicholas Boulton.