Brie Larson and J.J. Abrams Are Teaming Up for a C...

How’s this for a mega team-up? Captain Marvel herself, Brie Larson, will star in a brand new, horror film produced by J.J. Abrams, written by Brian Duffield and directed by J.T. Mollner. It’s known as Fail-Protected and it’s primarily based on a brief story by Philip Fracassi a couple of younger boy whose father spends a considerable amount of time ensuring his mom doesn’t kill everybody, as a result of she turns right into a monster.

“With Fail-Protected, Brian Duffield has written an absolute powerhouse of a script. It’s a horror movie that’s as candy and shifting as it’s terrifying,” Abrams mentioned in an announcement given to Deadline. “To have J.T. Mollner within the director’s chair — his Unusual Darling blew me away — is a dream come true. Lastly, having the limitlessly gifted Brie Larson as our star units up Fail-Protected to be that uncommon horror movie that makes you snigger, really feel, and care, earlier than taking you on a fully wild journey.”

The movie is at present being shopped available on the market on the Cannes Movie Competition, so count on some distributor to select it up and assist it get made, particularly with that stage of expertise behind it.

Larson and Abrams type of converse for themselves. One is the Oscar-winning darling who turned an unbelievable, low-key profession starring in unbelievable films like Quick Time period 12 and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World right into a superheroic one, together with her function as Captain Marvel and extra. Abrams is the one individual to ever direct a Star Trek and a Star Wars film and has helped create among the most beloved TV exhibits of a era, like Misplaced, Alias and Felicity.

These two collectively are superior on their very own however actually it’s Mollner and Duffield that deliver this collectively. Mollner has solely directed two options however his most up-to-date one, Unusual Darling, was a style competition darling, gaining reward and shock at each screening that passed off. Duffield lately wrote and directed No One Will Save You, the stellar sci-fi starring Kaitlyn Dever, and beforehand directed the hilarious and excessive, Spontaneous. They’re a few of our greatest skills within the style area and, to have them beneath the wing of J.J. Abrams, with Larson on the coronary heart of this very intriguing film, is superior.

You possibly can learn “Fail-Protected” by Philip Fracassi, in full, at this link. It’s a brief story so count on the film to be barely expanded however, you’ll get the concept. This may very well be superior.

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