Naomi Watts to lead remake of Austrian movie Goodnight Mommy

Hollywood star Naomi Watts will topline the remake of Austrian psychological thriller Goodnight Mommy for Amazon Studios. The English-language remake shall be helmed by Take Me To The River director Matt Sobel, as per Selection.

Kyle Warren penned the script for the movie, which shall be produced by David Kaplan, Joshua Astrachan, Valery Guibal and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert.

The unique film had attained the standing of cult traditional when it launched in 2014. It was later chosen because the Austrian entry for finest international language movie on the Academy Awards.

Starring Susanne Wuest within the lead, the story follows twin brothers who, when despatched to stick with their mom, are stunned to search out her swathed in bandages from a current process.

As her behaviour grows more and more erratic and strange, the twins change into satisfied she is an imposter.

Their suspicion units off a roller-coaster of emotional thoughts video games and misunderstandings between mom and her youngsters, that ultimately explodes with irreparable and heartbreaking penalties.

Watts can even function an govt producer together with the unique movie’s administrators Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz. Amazon is creating the movie in collaboration with Animal Kingdom and manufacturing firm Playtime.

Watts, who most lately featured in Netflix film Penguin Bloom, will subsequent star in Lakewood and thriller Infinite Storm.