{"id":23528,"date":"2025-04-16T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23528\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T01:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T01:53:08","slug":"jessica-chastain-to-star-in-rob-savage-horror-film-produced-by-james-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23528\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Chastain To Star In Rob Savage Horror Film Produced By James Wan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Jessica Chastain<\/a> looks to be making a return to the horror genre in a big way as sources tell Deadline that the Oscar winner has signed on to star in the latest film from director Rob Savage<\/a>. Atomic Monster<\/a> and Blumhouse are producing in association with Spin a Black Yarn for Universal<\/a> Pictures.<\/p>\n

\n\tSuccession writer Nathan Elston is penning the script, which is based on the novel titled Incidents Around the House<\/a> by Josh Malerman.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile details behind the film are unknown, in the Malerman novel, the story revolves around a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls \u201cOther Mommy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAtomic Monster\u2019s James Wan<\/a> is producing, with Michael Clear, Judson Scott, Macdara Kelleher, Savage, Malerman and Ryan Lewis executive producing. Alayna Glasthal is the executive overseeing the film for Atomic Monster.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Chastain is best known for her Oscar-nominated work in Zero Dark Thirty and The Eyes of Tammy Faye (which won her the Oscar), she\u2019s no stranger to the horror genre. She starred in the 2013 horror hit Mama, which helped launch the career of It director Andy Muschietti. They later reunited on It: Chapter Two.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther notable roles for Chastain include playing astronaut Melissa Lewis in\u00a0The Martian, the enigmatic Murph in\u00a0Interstellar and real-life figure Molly Bloom in\u00a0Molly\u2019s Game. Her credits also include the films Take Shelter,\u00a0Lawless,\u00a0Miss Sloane and\u00a0Crimson Peak, and on TV the miniseries\u00a0George & Tammy\u00a0for Showtime and\u00a0Scenes from a Marriage\u00a0for HBO.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer notable roles in theatre include playing Nora in Jamie Lloyd\u2019s\u00a0A Doll\u2019s House, Catherine Sloper in\u00a0The Heiress, and in\u00a0Salome\u00a0opposite Al Pacino.<\/p>\n

\n\tBehind the camera, Chastain launched New York-based Freckle Films in 2016 and has since produced\u00a0The 355,\u00a0Eyes of Tammy Faye and\u00a0George & Tammy along with the Neon film\u00a0Mothers\u2019 Instinct, the upcoming Apple Originals limited series The Savant, and Michel Franco\u2019s upcoming film\u00a0Dreams.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for Savage, he most recently directed the Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman. The film, produced by 21 Laps for 20th Century Studios, starred Sophie Thatcher, David Dastmalchian and Chris Messina and was released in June 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the start of the pandemic in 2020, Savage wrote, directed and released the feature film\u00a0Host, which sports a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was considered one of the year\u2019s best horror films. He followed that 2021\u2019s\u00a0Dashcam, which he also wrote and directed. It was produced by Blumhouse and premiered at that year at the Toronto Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tChastain is represented by CAA and Mosaic, Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. Savage is represented by WME, Exile Entertainment, JATWMM & Independent Talent in the UK. Elston is represented by UTA. Malerman is represented by Ryan Lewis of Spin a Black Yarn, Kristin Nelson of Nelson Literary Agency and Wayne Alexander of Alexander Lawrence Frumes & Labowitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Chastain looks to be making a return to the horror genre in a big way as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[14745,77,14746,14747,10197,3943,14748,16,15,6114],"class_list":{"0":"post-23528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-atomic-monster","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-incidents-around-the-house","11":"tag-james-wan","12":"tag-jessica-chastain","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-rob-savage","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-universal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114345148696401061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}