“Dark City” and “I, Robot” director Alex Proyas is returning to his indie roots with the horror-thriller “Sister Darkness”.
Dubbed a “macabre female-driven fever dream of revenge and gothic terror,” the story unfolds in the U.K. in the 1930s where the newly wed but unhappy Alice stumbles across her doppelganger Isla.
Isla’s existence is a mystery seeped in a tale of bloody retribution against her oppressors, the hellish supernatural nightscape and a dreaded uprising against the deceitful aristocracy.
Heretic Foundation, Mystery Clock Cinema, and 108 Media are backing the project which will shoot in Australia in late 2022/early 2023. The project will boast $35 million budget and will be shot using a fully virtual production process that was developed by Proyas’ VFX studio Heretic Foundation. He says in a statement:
“Sister Darkness will be a milestone in the use of virtual production at this scale and Heretic’s talented team will allow us to establish production values at much higher levels in this budget range than ever before thought achievable. This is the future of filmmaking.”
Proyas penned the script which is said to be heavily inspired by U.K. horror movies of the 1960s and 1970s are big influences along with iconic films such as “The Innocents” and “The Legend of Hell House”.
Source: THR
