Each December, I watch the nice zombie horror comedy musical Anna and the Apocalypse, which stars Ella Hunt as Anna. I’m an enormous fan of her work in that movie, so I’m at all times glad to see her present up in different initiatives, like Kevin Costner’s Horizon and Jason Reitman’s Saturday Evening (the place she performed Gilda Radner). Deadline has damaged the information of one other Ella Hunt challenge, and it feels like this one shall be proper up my alley: it’s a horror thriller known as Bella, which is being produced by The Conjuring writers Chad and Carey Hayes.
Bella is the primary challenge for the newly launched Hayes Brothers Movies manufacturing banner. Scripted by Chris Grillot, it is going to present us what occurs when a school pupil (Hunt) obsessive about profitable her college’s upcoming magnificence pageant begins to unravel beneath the stress of her overbearing mom — and the arrival of a mysterious stalker she believes is sabotaging her shot on the crown. Because the pageant nears, she races to uncover her stalker’s id earlier than it’s too late. This can mark the characteristic directorial debut of Chad Hayes’ son Dylan Doornbos Hayes, who has directed a variety of brief movies through the years. A type of shorts, made in 2019, was known as Bella and was written by Chris Grillot, so it feels like it is a characteristic enlargement of an idea they first dug into years in the past.
All three of the Hayes are producing the movie with Mandy June Turpin of Iron North Productions, Daniel Ragussis of Atomic Options, and Todd Slater of Convoke Media. It’s being produced in affiliation with Kontakto Movies. Government producers embrace Kontakto’s Isabel Echeverry, and Ricky Russert of Atomic Options. Purple Sea Media is dealing with the financing and world gross sales.
Hunt had this to say concerning the challenge: “When I read Bella I was immediately drawn into the psychological unravelling of this young woman grappling with toxic beauty standards and parental expectations, against a backdrop of pageantry. Having long wanted to explore a mother daughter dynamic on screen I couldn’t be more excited to embark on this.” Dylan Hayes added, “This is a story about beauty, control, and what happens when the mask cracks. Making my first feature with my dad and uncle producing feels surreal. I’ve spent my whole life watching them build character driven horror from the ground up. Chris’s script is incredibly layered, Ella is the perfect actor to bring Maria to life, and I’m grateful to Red Sea Media for backing this vision.” And the Hayes brothers stated, “We couldn’t be extra thrilled to be launching our Hayes Brothers Movies banner with this unimaginable story that feels each daring and uniquely business. When Chris Grillot’s script for Bella got here to us, we instantly acknowledged one thing uncommon. Since The Conjuring, we’ve learn tons of of scripts to think about producing, however his distinctive writing expertise satisfied us that this was the one.“
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