MBC Studios is growing a sequence adaptation of in style Saudi author Osamah Almuslim’s best-selling debut horror novel Khawf (Fear).
It is the second work by Almuslim to be tailored by the high-end manufacturing arm of Riyadh-based media large MBC Group, after his fantasy Rise Of The Witches about two rival covens in historical Arabia.
The work revolves round a studious younger man who’s given a guide in regards to the existence of a second world by a mysterious sheikh, the studying of which units in movement a sequence of terrifying occasions.
Zeinab Abu Alsamh, who’s normal supervisor of the Saudi arm of MBC Studios, introduced the challenge in an business panel on totally different features of growing IP on the Red Film Festival.
“It’s a very exciting project and has a very, very, very big fan base. That’s what make it exciting and scary at the same time,” she stated.
Rise Of The Witches has been billed as Saudi Arabia’s greatest adventure-fantasy sequence thus far.
That adaptation was achieved by U.Okay. author and actor Charlie Higson with Saudi co-writers Nora Aboushousha and Sara Al Ghabra. The feminine centered story shot in Saudi Arabia‘s new capturing hub Neom in 2022 and is presently in post-production.
Abu Alsamh informed Deadline that Khawf was within the early phases of growth and {that a} crew of native and MENA area Arabic-speaking writers was engaged on a draft script.
MBC Studios has additionally just lately tailored Ibraheem Abbas’s cult fantasy work HWJN, set between the world of people and djinns in up to date Jeddah.
The joint challenge with Abu Dhabi-based Image Nation and MENA area exhibition large VOX Cinemas opened the Red Sea Film Festival this 12 months, making historical past as the primary Arabic language function to open the occasion.
Abu Alsamh stated that each one the works spoke to MBC Studios’ ambition to create extra YA-focused work.
“It’s a coincidence that it’s all fantasy but the common denominator is that we’re trying to focus on young adults, and they’re into fantasy. That genre works with them,” she informed the panel.
Other upcoming productions on the MBC Studios slate embrace Rupert Wyatt’s Desert Warrior, set in seventh Century Arabia and starring Anthony Mackie.
The manufacturing, which shot in Neom in 2021, is presently in post-production with plans for a market launch in early 2024.
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