Anna Foerster hired by J.J. Abrams for new thriller

[Kaleb]

'Underworld: Blood Wars' director Anna Foerster hired by J.J. Abrams for new thriller

J.J. Abrams has hired Anna Foerster to direct the dramatic thriller Lou for Paramount Pictures and his production company Bad Robot, Mashable has exclusively learned — a gig that could help catapult the Outlander and Underworld: Blood Wars helmer into contention for bigger action projects down the road.

Lou follows a young mother who teams up with a mysterious older woman to help recover her abducted child. Abrams will produce the project with Braden Aftergood (Hell or High Water), though there's no start date in place just yet.

 

[Octoberist]

Awesome!

 

[Fallen Angel]

Who want's to put money on this being in the Cloverfield universe?

 

[Octoberist]

It's always possible. Maybe something a bit more grounded, but has very light supernatural elements to it.

 

[Kaleb]

From the review of the screenplay its definitely more grounded

 

[dude stannis]

That sounds good. There's only so much you can do with an Underworld flick, so I hope she gets a better chance to show off her genre chops here.

 

[#root]

This came out a while ago but I watched this recently and I thought it was a pretty decent thriller. The story was okish but Allison Janney was pretty good in the role. Not sure if there’s another thread for this but I couldn’t find one anywhere.