If you ever wondered to yourself what might’ve happened to Jacob Tremblay‘s character in “Room” as an adult, well an upcoming film might answer that question. While “The Marsh King’s Daughter” isn’t a sequel to “Room,” it might as well be based on the premise. That aside, the project has caught our attention thanks to the talent that is already signing up.
Alicia Vikander is going to pivot away from blockbusters following the upcoming “Tomb Raider” and dive back into drama with ‘Marsh,’ as Morten Tyldum (“The Imitation Game,” “Passengers“) gets behind the camera to direct. Based on the book by Karen Dionne, the story follows a woman who was the product of an abduction, when her mother was kidnapped as a teenager and held in a cabin. Now her father has escaped prison, and the woman must face her past. Here’s the book synopsis:
Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature, and despite her father’s sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too…until she learned precisely how savage he could be.
More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn’t know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marsh. The police begin a manhunt, but Helena knows they don’t stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh King—because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter.
The movie will have a script by Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith (“The Revenant“), which are some pretty big bonafides. No word yet on when production might begin, but “The Marsh King’s Daughter” is currently being shopped around the market at the Berlin International Film Festival. [Deadline]