Dan Trachtenberg will direct Valencia, a thriller Bad Robot is producing for Paramount Insurge, TheWrap reports.
“The majority of the movie takes place in an underground cellar, home to a teenage girl and a caretaker. The girl woke up in the cellar after a car accident, at which point her eerie companion tells her a nuclear attack has devastated society. The girl still hopes to escape.”
Trachtenberg will direct from a script by Dan Casey, who rewrote an earlier draft by Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken.
The movie will cost around $5 million, in keeping with Insurge’s mandate to release microbudget fare. The distributor bought the project a couple of years ago, and it has been in development ever since.
Paramount recently greenlit the movie for a fall start.