Released in 2009, the first Orphan was a moderate success at the box office, grossing $78 million worldwide against a $20 million budget. Sierra/Affinity is handling international sales. David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick will serve as an EP with Jen Gorton and Josie Liang overseeing for eOne. Dark Castle's Alex Mace, Hal Sadoff and Ethan Erwin are producing with James Tomlinson. The script meanwhile has been written by David Coggeshall, who has a background in horror which includes the likes of Scream: The TV Series and The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia.
Orphan: First Kill is directed by The Boy and Brahms: The Boy II director William Brent Bell, who has been shooting the movie in Winnipeg, Canada. This sounds like quite the task, and it will certainly be interesting to see how well the production team manage to pull to it off, and whether Fuhrman can once again convincingly play a "child" all these years later.įuhrman will be joined in Orphan: First Kill by The Bourne Identity star Julia Stiles, with the actress likely playing the protective mother who goes head-to-head with Esther in the horror prequel. Reports have stated that, in order to get this, the movie will use "forced perspective shooting and a world-class makeup team" in order to help bring the character to life once again. But Leena's new life as 'Esther' comes with an unexpected wrinkle and pits her against a mother who will protect her family at any cost."įuhrman has aged 11 years since first playing the role of the supposedly 9-year-old Esther, with the actress now 23-years old.
A post shared by Isabelle Fuhrman First Kill will follow Isabelle Fuhrman as Esther, who is now living under the name Leena Klammer, as she "orchestrates a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility and travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family.