Baba Yaga VR
“Star Wars” actress Daisy Ridley will lead “Baba Yaga,” a new VR project from Baobab Studios. The viewer plays the main character of a dark and mystic fairytale in which their choices impact the ending of the story.
Users will follow their ten-year-old sister Magda (Ridley) as the two girls search a magical forest for a plant that can cure their mother’s sickness, but must be wary of the witch who lives there, Baba Yaga. Baobab Studios’ VR works often translate to a traditional 2D format as well. [Variety]
Not Without Hope
Miles Teller is set to play the lone survivor of a real-life 2009 boating tragedy in “Not Without Hope” which Russell Wilson and Ciara will executive produce. Directed by Rupert Wainwright (“Stigmata”), the film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Nick Schuyler and Jere Longman.
E. Nicholas Mariani adapted the script for the story about four friends, including two NFL players, who set off for a day trip to their favorite fishing spot 70 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. As a severe storm headed their way, a trapped anchor and a tragic mistake in trying to free it caused the boat to capsize, throwing the four violently into the freezing water. [Source: THR]
Replay
Olivia Munn will both produce and star in Jimmy Loweree’s upcoming science-fiction action movie “Replay” for Dark Castle Entertainment. Munn, who also produces, plays the wife of a man who has been kidnapped and murdered.
Armed with illegal, bleeding-edge technology and a desperate plan, she must do everything in her power to change the past and save him. [Source: Variety]
Peggy Jo
Lily James (“Yesterday,” “Baby Driver”) is set to take the lead in true-crime feature “Peggy Jo” from award-winning director Phillip Noyce (“Salt,” “Dead Calm”) for Canyon Creek Films. Robert Knott (“Appaloosa”) penned the film which will be shot on location in southern United States.
James will play Peggy Jo Tallas, a “real-life Bonnie but without a Clyde” who takes to robbing banks while posing as a man named ‘Cowboy Bob’ to support her family. She was unique – always alone and was determined not to carry a weapon into any bank she robbed. [Source: THR]
