Focus Features is boarding director Fernando Meirelles' next film, BLINDNESS. Focus Features International announced Tuesday that it will handle international sales on the film. Focus also is expected to serve as the film's domestic distributor, though the company would not comment on that possibility, says The Hollywood Reporter.

BLINDNESS, adapted by Don McKellar from the novel by Jose Saramago, is a dramatic thriller about a sudden outbreak of blindness that envelops a city. An accelerated government quarantine spurs a small group of people to fight back.