Rebecca Thomas has booked yet another gig. According to Variety, the “Stranger Things” helmer has signed on to direct “Malignant,” a sci-fi action-thriller from Fox.
Based on the Boom! Studios comic “Malignant Man,” the film will center on a terminally ill patient who “discovers that his malignant tumor is actually a mysterious alien parasite. He’s assigned to battle a secret army,” the source summarizes.
Zak Olkewicz penned the script.
Other women-helmed comic book adaptations on the way include Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “Silver & Black” and “Captain Marvel,” co-directed by Anna Boden.
Thomas has a number of high-profile films in the works, including a live-action telling of “The Little Mermaid” starring Chloe Grace Moretz (“If I Stay”), and an adaptation of beloved John Green YA novel “Looking for Alaska.” In March she signed on to bring Cheryl Della Pietra’s semi-autobiographical novel “Gonzo Girl” to the big screen.
She made her feature debut with 2012’s “Electrick Children,” a drama about a Mormon teen who thinks she was impregnated by listening to music. “I was raised mainstream Mormon in Las Vegas, so I had a TV and went to public school, and I had people who weren’t Mormon as my friends,” Thomas shared when she was asked about how much of the film was influenced by her own experiences.
