In line with Deadline, Netflix is at present in ultimate negotiations to amass the movie adaptation rights to Chris Hicks’ brief story titled I Am Not Alone. Oscar winner Jessica Chastain (Mama) is hooked up for the main function within the sci-fi horror drama, with Lovecraft Nation director Misha Inexperienced signing on as its director and author.
Netflix defeated 4 different main studios in an intense bidding competitors for the challenge, with a reported high-six-figure deal. Along with starring, Chastain will even be producing by her Freckle Image banner with Inexperienced and Kelly Carmichael.
I Am Not Alone will comply with the story of a mom of a younger daughter, whose life modifications when she began seeing creatures attributable to her insufferable migraines. It’s described as “a grounded sci-fi story a couple of mom compelled to defend her household towards a risk solely she will see.”
Extra producers embrace Style Movies’ Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon, Bread & Circuses Leisure’s Craig Flores, Scott Glassgold, and Peter Katz. This marks Kinberg’s second collaboration with Chastain after working collectively in The Martian, Darkish Phoenix, and The 355.
“I’m a large fan of Misha’s work, and been buddies with Craig for years, so after I received despatched this story and heard they had been concerned, I completely flipped out,” Kinberg mentioned in a press release. “Misha’s imaginative and prescient for it’s in contrast to something I’ve ever seen. And attending to work with Jessica once more makes it even dreamer.”