EW.com has some news about the upcoming Stephen King film "Mercy." Mercy is an adaptation of the King short story GRAMMA.
From EW:
Child stars Chandler Riggs and Joel Courtney will play brothers whose grandmother has evil powers in the Stephen King thriller adaptation Mercy. Riggs currently stars on AMC’s The Walking Dead as the son of Sheriff Rick Grimes; Courtney appeared in J.J. Abrams’s Super 8.
Oh boy. How do you reckon their gonna do this one?
ReplyDeleteI can't see "Gramma" as full length movie. There doesn't seem enough to work with.
Unless they turn the entire film into a kind of elongated stalker film mixed with an old Gothic mansion flick.
Technically, on this idea, it could consist of the grandmother relegated to the bedroom, yet influencing all that follows.
Like she could have psychotic episode that triggers who knows what to come out of the shadows and the boy has to spend the entire time dodging and surviving these events while confined to the house (logically expanded into a two story near mansion for this version).
Another way is to have the grandmother go on a psychotic episode, yet do it more low key so that we don't know if the events that happen are real or all in the boy's mind, that his fear is literally driving him crazy.
You can even frame his memories of his families conversation of the grandmother so that we don't know if they actually happen or if this is just something the boy either believes or tells himself.
Those are some possibilities, I don't know what the filmmakers have in mind.
ChrisC