She battled an ancient alien creature in** The Thing **and, even more impressively, escaped both A Good Day To Die Hard and A****braham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter with her dignity largely intact. Now, however, Mary Elizabeth Winstead will have to deal with a nasty kidnapper in **The Cellar.
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot team is working this one up alongside the lower budget Paramount Vantage label. Dan Trachtenberg is aboard to direct Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken and Dan Casey’s script, which follows a young woman waking up underground following a nasty car accident.
Her captor claims to be a rescuer, and reveals himself as a doomsday obsessive who says the world outside has become uninhabitable thanks to a serious chemical attack. But as her worries for her safety start to rise, our heroine must escape and risk whatever lurks beyond the cellar door…
Winstead, who was last seen in The Spectacular Now, is at work on the pilot for the US TV version of zombie tale The Returned and will be back on our screens in Kill The Messenger, which is out on March 6 next year.