Salma Hayek Pinault and Anne Hathaway – Photo Credit: Brian Bowen Smith / Getty Images
Netflix has acquired the characteristic movie rights to Kōtarō Isaka’s Seesaw Monster, with Salma Hayek Pinault and Anne Hathaway set to star.
The film presently in improvement at Netflix might be primarily based on the 2019 Kōtarō Isaka novel, Seesaw Monster (or Shisō Monsutā / シーソーモンスター because it’s recognized in Japanese per GoodReads), which is described as a thriller thriller.
This is the most recent adaptation of the Japanese writer’s numerous novels.
Kōtarō Isaka’s 2010 novel was topic to a latest adaptation within the type of Bullet Train, the Sony film starring Brad Pitt. That film and Netflix’s adaptation of Seesaw Monster share Yuma Terada (CTB Inc.) as a producer. Bullet Train lately touched down on Netflix India and might be headed to Netflix US by the shut of 2022.
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Olivia Milch might be writing the variation’s screenplay for Netflix, and presently, particulars on the plot are being saved below wraps.
Best recognized for her work on Ocean’s 8, Milch landed a Netflix mission that dropped globally in 2018 within the type of Dude. The teen comedy starred Lucy Hale, Kathryn Prescott, Awkwafina, and Alexandra Shipp.
Olivia Milch – ANGELA WEISS/AFP by way of Getty Images
The two leads, who may even function producers embrace Anne Hathaway and Salma Hayek Pinault.
Anne Hathaway is greatest recognized for roles in Les Misérables, Christopher Nolan’s Batman motion pictures, and extra lately, The Witches for HBO Max.
For Netflix, Hathaway starred alongside Ben Affleck in The Last Thing He Wanted launched in 2020. She may even lend her voice to the upcoming Storybots collection in November 2022.
Salma Hayek Pinault has but to characteristic in any launched Netflix Original mission however that may quickly be altering. She’s set to visitor star within the subsequent season of Black Mirror and is an govt producer on the upcoming mission, Monarch.
Akiva Goldsman and Gregory Lessans produce for Weed Road Pictures; Salma Hayek Pinault for Ventanarosa Productions; Anne Hathaway for Somewhere Pictures; Ryosuke Saegusa and Yuma Terada for CTB Inc.
We’ll publish a full preview of Seesaw Monster as soon as now we have extra info, together with filming begin dates and different info.
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