“Pet Sematary director Mary Lambert is attached to helm an adaptation of Mira Grant’s mermaid thriller “Rolling in the Deep” for Branded Pictures Entertainment, Variety has learned exclusively.Sean Hood, whose credits include Conan the Barbarian and Halloween: Resurrection, will adapt the novel, published in 2015.
The story revolves around an idealistic young filmmaker who sets out to the Mariana Trench with a small crew to film a faux documentary about mermaids.
But the hoax soon turns real as sailors begin to disappear and the filmmaker realizes that they are under siege by actual mermaids.
A fight to survive at any cost ensues.“‘Rolling in the Deep’ is a film led by complicated badass female characters,” Lambert said.
“I’ve been waiting to make a film like this my entire career.
Our mermaids are not cliché sugary cartoon princesses; they will take you down if you stand in their way.
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