The Orphanage producer Rodar y Rodar is teaming with Atresmedia, the film arm of top Spanish broadcaster Atresmedia group, to produce $20 million sci-fi thriller Mirage, Rodar’s English-language debut, Variety reports.
Oriol Paulo, who helmed Rodar’s early-year hit El cuerpo (The Body; pictured), has written a second-draft screenplay and is on board to direct.
“A typical character-driven psychological thriller, a mix that has won Spanish genre movies admirers and buyers around the world, Mirage turns on a mother battling to find her lost son. It is set in parallel worlds of 1980, 2000 and 2014,” said Rodar producer Joaquin Padro.
“Mirage is based on a terrifying premise,” Paulo said. “What if one life had to be lost in order to save another?”
A more detailed plot is under wraps.
Movie is set in a middle-class small U.S. town, he added. Rodar aims to shoot exteriors in North America, interiors in Spain, where costs are considerably lower.
