Juan Antonio Bayona’s Monster project will call on American audiences in October 2016…
Focus Features has announced plans to release A Monster Calls, the film directed bythe 37-year-old Spanish filmmaker, on October 14, 2016.
Based on the award-winning children’s fantasy novel by Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls centers on a young boy who attempts to deal with his mother’s illness and school bullies by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales.
Ness wrote the novel based on an original idea by the late Siobhan Dowd, and he and illustrator Jim Kay won Britain’s prestigious Carnegie Medal and Greenaway Medal in 2012, presented to the year’s best children’s literature in the United Kingdom.
Juan Antonio Bayona has landed a monster project… The 37-year-old Spanish filmmaker, whose most recent film The Impossible earned him five Goya Awards, including Best Director, will next direct the film A Monster Calls. It’s a film adaptation of the children’s fantasy novel of the same name by Patrick Ness…
It looks like J.A. Bayona will have a Monster October… Focus Features will release the 41-year-old Spanish filmmaker’s fantasy drama A Monster Calls on October 21, one week later than originally planned. Written by Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls follows a boy who seeks the help of a tree monster so that he…
J.A. Bayona is celebrating a monster night… The 41-year-old Spanish filmmaker took home the Best Director prize at the Spanish Film Academy’s Goya Awards ceremony over the weekend, while his film A Monster Calls proved to be the night’s big winner with nine awards. Bayona's tale of a boy who faces…
