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 referred to as Fail-Protected and it’s based mostly on a brief story by Philip Fracassi a few 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 transferring as it’s terrifying,” Abrams mentioned in a press release 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 proficient Brie Larson as our star units up Fail-Protected to be that uncommon horror movie that makes you snort, really feel, and care, earlier than taking you on a fully wild trip.”

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

Larson and Abrams form of converse for themselves. One is the Oscar-winning darling who turned an unimaginable, low-key profession starring in unimaginable motion pictures like Brief Time period 12 and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World right into a superheroic one, together with her position as Captain Marvel and extra. Abrams is the one particular person to ever direct a Star Trek and a Star Wars film and has helped create a number of 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 pageant darling, gaining reward and shock at each screening that came about. 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 house and, to have them below the wing of J.J. Abrams, with Larson on the coronary heart of this very intriguing film, is superior.

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

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