Animal Kingdom and Playtime have begun packaging the English-language remake of well-received Austrian psychological chiller Goodnight Mommy.Filming is due to begin Q3, 2019, with Matt Sobel, director of 2015 Sundance drama Take Me To The River, attached to direct.
Writing is underway with Sobel overseeing a draft by Kyle Warren, based on their shared take on the original.David Kaplan (It Follows) will produce on behalf of Animal Kingdom alongside Nicolas Brigaud-Robert and Valery Guibal from Playtime (Son Of Saul).In Goodnight Mommy, Elias and his twin brother Lukas arrive at their mother’s house to find her face covered in bandages − the result, she explains, of recent cosmetic surgery.
Lukas delights in their mother’s uncharacteristically lax house rules, butin Elias’ mind, a dreadful thought takes root: the sinking suspicion that thiswoman beneath the gauze, who’s making their food and sleeping in the nextroom, isn’t really their mother.
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