Jessica Chastain To Star In Guillermo Del Toro-Produced Horror Mama

By Fiona | Jul 21, 2011 | Movie News (0) Comment

I like Jessica Chastain. And I have nothing against Guillermo Del Toro. So, basically, I think that with those names on board for an adaptation of Andres Muschiett‘s 2-minute and 56-second short film Mama, nothing could go wrong.

Wait, what, Chastain, Del Toro, Mama? Confused? See, that’s exactly why you should read the rest of this report.

So, it goes like this. We’ve just learned that Del Toro is producing a feature-length adaptation of Spanish filmmaker Andres Muschiett’s 2-minute and 56-second short film titled Mama, and guess what, it’s not going to be comedy!

No way, we’re here to talk about the horror! And, according to the latest reports, lovely Jessica Chastain, Tree of Life star, is attached to play the title role.

Muschietti’s original short centers around two young girls, Lili and Victoria who flee from a ghostly woman that resembles their dead mother, while the expanded feature will skew the story slightly for Chastain to play “a sort of adoptive mother rather than a literal one, taking care of two little girls abandoned in the woods.

Too bad for them she’s planning on using them in a bid to bring back her own, already dead, children.”

Just in case you want more details about the whole thing, I recommend you to check out the video below.

I know it’s just 2 minutes and 56 seconds, but it scared the hell out of me.

Stay tuned for more Mama updates!