The Orphange will get hollywood – Obsessed With Film

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September 8, 2007 6:28 am
By: tiffreviews

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Obsessed With Film - The Orphange is getting great buzz at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie from Spanish filmaker Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Guillermo del Toro is said to be the best ghost story cinema has seen in years, with critics comparing it to The Others in tone and Pan’s Labyrinth in quality. The movie revolves around a women who returns to the orphanage where she grew up to help handicapped children by opening up a new home for them. When her son makes an invisible friend, bad things begin to happen and it turns out the friend is the same person who terrorized women when she was a child. The Hollywood Reporter say an English language remake has been greenlit by New Line Cinema with Del Toro again on board as a producer and possibly Bayona directing the same material again for this Hollywood version, though the trade hint New Line might find someone new… [Full Story]

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