Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Mama

9/12/11 - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will star opposite Jessica Chastain in Mama, a Guillermo del Toro-executive produced horror movie being distributed by Universal, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The movie tells the story of a couple who take in their long-lost young nieces and nephews. The kids were found after living in the forest for five years but now murderous events begin to unfold and it becomes clear that a supernatural force is intent on claiming the kids.  Andres Muschietti is directing. Neil Cross rewrote the script based on an original draft by Muschietti and his sister-partner Barbara Muschietti.  Miles Dale and Barbara Muschietti are producing. The movie will begin shooting October 3 in Toronto.

5/7/09 - Universal is developing the horror tale Mama, a debut project from a pair of young filmmakers, and in negotiations to produce the film and mentor the filmmakers is Hellboy and Hobbit helmer Guillermo del Toro, according to The Hollywood Reporter's RiskyBusiness blog.  Andy and Barbara Muschietti are writing the English-language script based on their acclaimed Spanish-language short, Mama, with Andy directing and Barbara producing. If he climbs aboard, del Toro would be hands-on with the movie in a manner not dissimilar to his work with Juan Antonio Bayona on The Orphanage, the site reported.  The plot line is being kept under wraps, but the short centers on two girls, Victoria and Lily, who are on the run from a ghostly woman who appears to be their mother in a Gothic home not unlike the one used by Bayona in The Orphanage.  In one ending to the short (there are in fact two closing sequences), the mother is seemingly vanquished, but one of the girls is herself turned into a ghoul.

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