Summit Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to The Impossible, movie based on a true story that took place during the 2004 tsunami, that hit the coast of Indonesia.
This upcoming drama stars Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor. As you see, looks that folks from Summit are very satisfied with her work, since this would be a second Naomi Watts feature to its release slate (we guess you remember us writing about Doug Liman’s Fair Game, right?)
No big information about this one, but we know that Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) is in charge for directing the whole thing, from a script by Sergio G. Sanchez.
Production starts in August in Alicante, Spain, and then in Thailand in October.
Plot is still unknown, but there are rumors “that Bayona’s aim “is to recreate this natural disaster through a script with hints of horror and mystery and large doses of science fiction.”
That does sound a little bit… weird, but what kind of story is there to be told, anyway? We already had a chance to watch some documentary projects with this theme, as well as 2006 TV movie, Tsunami: The Aftermath and we must say that anything sounds better than two tourists or some international journalists that just walk around, and than tsunami hits, or something like that.
So, maybe this science- fiction-thing doesn’t sound bad after all? Anyway, we must admit that with these acting names involved, The Impossible could be successful project.
Beside Fair Game, Watts is in the upcoming Dream House, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Rodrigo Garcia’s Mother & Child. McGregor was most recently seen in Summit’s The Ghost Writer.
With every new information we’ll be right here for an update. Stay tuned!
