Real life couple
Paul Bettany and
Jennifer Connelly will star together in the psychological thriller
Born, which has a wacky but very cool sounding plot...
Daniel Simpson will direct the project, which revolves around a couple who settle down in a seemingly idyllic English town to raise a family. Their perfect life is shaken when the husband, a claymation artist, discovers his characters are acting out a nightmare that comes to life.
The stop motion characters will be handled by
The Chiodo Brothers, who were responsible for some of the special effects in
Team America,
Elf and they of course directed that cult classic film
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Awesome. Let's hope this is kept very serious and these claymation characters can look as creepy and horrifying as humanely possible. This will be
Daniel Simpson's feature film debut, though he did direct a small 26 minute claymation short back in 1995 titled
H, so I'm guessing he has probably had this idea for a film for quite some time. Simpson wrote the script alongside
Clive Barker and
Paul Kaye, with the former acting also as producer alongside
Guillermo del Toro and others. source -
variety