Netflix Wins Short I Am Not Alone Jessica Chastain, Misha Green Sci-Fi Terror Tale – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: If some movie executives have regarded a bit distracted on the company Oscar events tonight, it’s as a result of they had been waging a moderately breathtaking public sale for I Am Not Alone, a 22-page brief story by Chris Hicks that is a perfect template for a serious style movie. The mud is simply settling, however I’m listening to that Netflix is closing up a high-six-figure deal for an outright purchase of the story, with mid-seven figures pledged to Lovecraft Nation’s Misha Inexperienced to put in writing the script and direct as a star automobile for Oscar winner Jessica Chastain.

5 bidders chased this one over 72 hours, and it got here right down to Netflix and Warner Bros. An enormous motive for the result is that Inexperienced needed this to be with a streamer.

The brief story begins with the prologue: “I started seeing the creatures a couple of week earlier than Zoe’s go to.” I don’t wish to give an excessive amount of of it away, however the story facilities round a mom of a younger daughter whose life unravels when she suffers insufferable migraines that trigger her to hallucinate as she begins to see creatures. It’s the template for a grounded sci-fi story a couple of mom compelled to defend her household towards a risk solely she will see.  

Style Movies’ Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon, Bread & Circuses Leisure’s Craig Flores, Scott Glassgold and Peter Katz are producing together with Chastain and her Freckle Photos associate Kelly Carmichael. Verve and Glassgold’s Floor Management dealt with the public sale together with Peter Katz, CAA and Vary Media Companions. That is the seventh latest deal by Verve and Floor Management, and I believe this could be the best sum paid for short-story IP. Factoring within the producer offers and in addition Chastain’s wage, the deal will simply exceed the large one made lately for Zach Cregger and the brief Weapons to New Line.

This one got here right down to Netflix and Warner Bros, with the highest execs from every making affords from the company events.

It’s arduous to succeed in the contributors at this late hour, however I acquired maintain of two of the producers.

Mentioned Kinberg, who has teamed with Chastain on three earlier initiatives: “I’m an enormous fan of Misha’s work, and been pals with Craig for years, so after I acquired despatched this story and heard they had been concerned, I completely flipped out. Misha’s imaginative and prescient for it’s not like something I’ve ever seen. And attending to work with Jessica once more makes it even dreamer.”

Mentioned Flores, who’s producing Inexperienced’s directing debut Sunflower for Lionsgate: “Collaborating once more with visionary writer-director Misha Inexperienced and her distinctive literary voice on this sci-fi horror franchise is an absolute dream. And mixing two creaetive powerhouses like Misha and Simon Kinberg is greater than any producer may ask for.”

Hicks is repped by Verve and Story Pushed; Inexperienced by CAA and Vary Media; Chastain is CAA and Mosaic.