Rodrigo Garcia – the Columbian director of the forthcoming spooky plane crash drama, Passengers – has already lined up his next movie… with a little help from some of his amigos.
Mother And Child, a drama about the collisions between a 50 year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption decades earlier, and a black women looking to adopt, will be produced by cha cha cha – better known, perhaps, as the production company jointly owned by the Mexican trio of Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
The $4.5 million drama, which will start shooting in December or January, is certainly more typical of Garcia’s output than Passengers, which is about the survivors of a plane crash experiencing spooky goings-on. Garcia’s previous movies, notably Nine Lives (also produced by Inarritu) explore the mindsets of female characters.
Focus Features will fund the cha cha cha production. Their first movie will be Rudo y Cursi, a football flick starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna and directed by Alfonso Cuaron’s brother, Carlos.