Earlier this year and just before its well-received run at the Sundance Film Festival, Under the Shadow was acquired by Vertical Entertainment and XYZ Films for a worldwide release on Netflix. Now XYZ Films has teamed up with Wigwam Films in a new creative partnership, and one of their first in-the-works movies is a remake of Babak Anvari's Iranian horror film.
The news of an Under the Shadow remake comes from Deadline, who reports that an "English-language adaptation" of Anvari's film is on the docket for XYZ and Wigwam. Should the remake move forward, Anvari himself is set to executive produce the project, and he is also developing his next film with the two companies.
While the original Under the Shadow followed a family in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, the remake is expected to take place during the London Blitz, which would place the film in the early 1940s.
No other details on the remake are known at this time, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further details. For those unfamiliar with the film, we have the official synopsis for Under the Shadow, which is currently awaiting a release date:
"UNDER THE SHADOW is written and directed by British / Iranian Babak Anvari and stars Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi and Bobby Naderi. The film is produced by Lucan Toh, Oliver Roskill and Emily Leo of Wigwam Films. Set in Tehran in 1988 as the Iran-Iraq war rumbles into its eighth year. The bombing campaigns focused on the city, coupled with the country’s bloody revolution, slowly tear a mother and daughter apart. As they struggle to stay together in the midst of these modern terrors, a mysterious evil stalks through their apartment, threatening their grip on reality."
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