Andres Muschietti recently made his feature directorial debut with Mama, adapted from his own short. The film only cost $15 million to make but has already grossed $100 million and counting. Hollywood loves a filmmaker who can keep things cheap and yet still make money, so it’s little surprise Muschietti has lined up a new gig.
THR reports the director is staying creepy with Bird Box, adaptated from a novel written by Josh Malerman (who also happens to be the frontman of the band The High Strung). The movie is described as a mix of Children of Men and The Others, following a woman and two children as they travel down a river “in a seemingly post-apocalyptic setting”.
Universal is backing the movie, and is apparently looking for writers to adapt Malerman’s manuscript.