Jessica Chastain & Anne Hathaway Team for Hitchcockian Thriller MOTHERS’ INSTINCT
Jessica Chastain (IT Chapter Two) and Anne Hathaway (The Witches) will play 60’s housewives whose relationship takes a dark turn in writer-director Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Hitchcockian psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct.
The film will follow best friends and neighbors (Chastain and Hathaway) who live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands, and sons of the same age. After life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident, guilt, suspicion, and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
The film is a remake of the Belgian movie Duelles based on the novel Derrière La Haine by Barbara Abel. Sarah Conradt (50 States of Fright) is adapting the script.
Writer-director Masset-Depasse (Illegal) says: “It takes actors of Jessica and Anne’s caliber to communicate the intricacy of these two roles. The relationship between a mother and child is the most powerful connection between two human beings. When this bond is severed, it calls into question conventional morality and even sanity. In the behind-closed-doors atmosphere of 1960’s America, Mothers’ Instinct becomes a terrifying, high-pressure powder keg.”
Anton Founder and CEO, Sébastien Raybaud added: “Audiences could not wish for a more dynamic match-up on screen. Both character roles are wonderfully complex and will showcase Jessica and Anne’s incredible breadth of talent. Olivier has already proven adept at this twist on the Hitchcockian genre and we have great faith in his ability to deliver a compelling thriller.”
Kelly Carmichael, Paul Nelson, and Jacques-Henri Bronckart (The Nun) produce.
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