Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain have been carving out successful careers for themselves, and now they're teaming up to star in a new psychological thriller called Mothers' Instinct.
Olivier Masset-Depasse is on to direct the film, which would see him remaking his own 2018 film Duelles. Hathaway and Chastain will be friends and neighbours who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. The story, set in the 1960s, will see the perfect harmony suddenly shattered by a tragic accident as guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond. It's all adapted from Barbara Abel's novel Derrière la Haine, and Sarah Conradt is writing the script.
"It takes actors of Jessica and Anne’s calibre to communicate the intricacy of these two role," Masset-Depasse said. "The relationship between a mother and child is the most powerful connection between two human beings. When this bond is severed, it calls into question conventional morality and even sanity. In the behind-closed-doors atmosphere of 1960’s America, Mothers’ Instinct becomes a terrifying, high-pressure powder keg."
Hathaway is on screen now in the new version of The Witches, while Chastain has spy thriller The 355 due out on 15 January.