Another popular game is being adapted into a movie. Earlier this month it was reported that “Westworld” creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan are bringing “Fallout,” post-apocalyptic role-playing video games, to Amazon Prime, and now comes word that the Soska Sisters are working on a feature based on “BlindSide,” an audio-only mobile adventure game. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.
Jen and Sylvia Soska will write, direct, and produce the horror pic for Radar Pictures.
Titled “Unseen,” the film tells the story of “a Boston couple who wake up blind in a terrifying world they cannot recognize. As the couple claw their way through this terrifying new reality, they fear their sanity slipping away. They sense the presence of a strange new species, one for which light is not a priority,” THR hints.
“‘Unseen’ is a horror film experience completely unlike any other before it. This film will truly bring the fear of the unknown to life by putting the focus of storytelling on what you hear,” the Soska Sisters said in a statement.
The duo has spoken out about sexism in the industry. “The thing that infuriates me the most is that so often I see a job that maybe I want to direct, a guy with less credentials who has made less movies with less success and who is getting paid twice as much as what I would be paid is getting the job — and I’m not even able to get into the room,” Jen Soska told The Hairpin. “It so frustrates me that if my name appears, if there is a horror movie that’s being made or being remade, my name is on that list [of directors to talk to], but that’s only to show the perquisite of saying ‘Oh, we looked at the Soska Sisters.’ Also,” she added, “when someone doesn’t like one of our films, it’s not our films that they criticize, they tear us apart. Usually it comes down to name-calling and saying things as crude as, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t fuck them.'”
“American Mary” and “Rabid” are among the Soska Sisters’ credits.