Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls gets an October 2016 release date

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 12 years ago

Last Updated on July 22, 2021

Focus Features has set director Juan Antonio Bayona’s A MONSTER CALLS for a wide release on October 14, 2016. Based on the award-winning children’s fantasy novel by Patrick Ness (the “Chaos Walking” trilogy), the film will be produced by Belen Atienza.

A Monster Calls is a drama about a young boy who attempts to deal with his mother’s illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that deal with courage, loss and faith.
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Ness is adapting the screenplay from his novel with River Road’s Bill Pohlad and Mitch Horwits, Participant Media’s Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King, and Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-Chairman Patrick Wachsberger executive producing.

Bayona recently directed the first two episodes of “Penny Dreadful” for Showtime and is signed to direct WORLD WAR Z 2.

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Source: Focus Features

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