Thanks to Monique for giving us this info about a rumoured project for Hannah!
Hannah tangles with the sinister side of the web
The dark side of the internet is coming to the big screen with an array of future film stars. A suicidal teen logs on to a web chatroom and the initial, innocent chatter about Harry Potter and potty pop stars gives way to the story’s narrator, Jim, being lured into a nasty, spiteful power game controlled by other adolescents he can’t see.
The film starts shooting soon and the film’s producers, Ruby Films and Film 4, came up with a clever way of getting away from the usual, dull teen movie fare by hiring Hideo Nakata, director of the Japanese Ring horror pictures, to make Chatroom.
Nakata noted in an interview online recently: ‘It deals with a very dark reality, especially how young people’s negative feelings of anxiety, hatred and anger can become amplified.’ He noted that a depressed boy can become even more depressed through certain kinds of internet communication.
Anyway, the cast he has assembled for Chatroom is anything but depressing. In fact, there are some exciting, fast-rising names on his list.
The actors who have been signed up include Aaron Johnson, who is working with Sam Taylor Wood on Nowhere Boy and on Matthew Vaughn’s Kick Ass; and Matthew Beard, the clever, understated actor who was in When Did You Last See Your Father? and who gives a small, gem of a performance in An Education.
I’m looking forward to seeing how Hannah Murray moves from the small screen, where she played the delicate Cassie in Skins, to a larger playground in Chatroom. Likewise for fellow Skins alumni Daniel Kaluuya.
Read the full article here – there’s nothing confirmed on IMDB yet, but fingers crossed for a few new projects!
