EXCLUSIVE: Dichen Lachman (Severance) has closed a deal to star alongside Jessica Chastain and Jay Duplass in Rob Savage‘s new supernatural horror movie, based mostly on the e-book Incidents Across the Home by Hen Field‘s Josh Malerman.
Character particulars are below wraps. Launched final June, the e-book facilities on eight-year-old Bela, who lives in a house strained by her mother and father’ troubled marriage, solely to see her life additional upended by a sinister entity she calls “Different Mommy.” When this malevolent presence emerges from her closet, persistently asking, “Can I’m going inside your coronary heart?”, Bela refuses. However quickly, Different Mommy’s manifestations develop into more and more aggressive, threatening the security of Bela’s household.
At present in manufacturing, the movie is being produced for Common by Atomic Monster/Blumhouse in affiliation with Spin a Black Yarn. Succession‘s Nathan Elston tailored the screenplay. James Wan is producing, with Michael Clear, Judson Scott, Macdara Kelleher, Savage, Malerman, and Ryan Lewis exec producing. Alayna Glasthal is the chief overseeing the movie for Atomic Monster.
The movie falls below supernatural horror, one of many 24 thriving subgenres recognized in a Blumhouse research carried out with Sage Outcomes, which surveyed over 2,000 horror followers and consultants, as mentioned on the firm’s inaugural Enterprise of Concern occasion.
Lachman has earned important acclaim and powerful Emmy buzz for twin roles as Ms. Casey and Gemma within the Apple TV+ phenomenon Severance. Quickly, she’ll be seen starring within the second and third seasons of Netflix’s live-action model of Avatar: The Final Airbender. Different previous credit embody roles in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Jurassic World: Dominion, the latter of which led her to reprise within the animated sequence Jurassic World: Chaos Idea. Her physique of labor additionally consists of Altered Carbon, Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D., Raya and the Final Dragon, Animal Kingdom, Aquamarine, and Too Late.
Lachman is represented by Gersh, Administration Manufacturing Leisure, and Yorn Levine Barnes.
