{"id":176130,"date":"2025-12-09T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176130\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:15:07","slug":"orphan-prequel-orphans-starring-isabelle-fuhrman-acquired-by-republic-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/176130\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Orphan&#8217; Prequel &#8216;Orphans&#8217; Starring Isabelle Fuhrman Acquired by Republic Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republic Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to the Orphan franchise prequel Orphans from Dark Castle Entertainment, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/orphans-orphan-prequel-1236643675\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which will soon wrap production in Budapest, serves as a prequel to 2022\u2019s Orphan: First Kill, which itself was a prequel to 2009\u2019s Orphan.<\/p>\n<p>Isabelle Fuhrman \u2014 now 28 years old \u2014 will play an even younger version of Esther. Like First Kill, the effect is expected to be accomplished through a combination of makeup, forced perspective, and body doubles.<\/p>\n<p>William Brent Bell (Orphan: First Kill, The Boy) directs from a script by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia).<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Moyer (\u201cTrue Blood\u201d), Susanne Wuest (Goodnight Mommy), and Simon Man (\u201cWestworld\u201d) also star.<\/p>\n<p>Dark Castle\u2019s Norman Golightly produces with Alex Mace of Gnosis Films and original Orphan writer David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. Fuhrman serves as executive producer alongside Kelly Gallagher and Victor Moyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurrounding Isabelle with Stephen, Simon, and Susanne will deliciously add to the twists, turns, and kills that Orphan fans have come to love and expect from the franchise,\u201d said Golightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to bring the next chapter of the Orphan franchise to audiences across the US,\u201d added Sejin Croninger, EVP, Worldwide Acquisitions, Paramount Pictures. \u201cDark Castle has built an iconic series, and this new installment expands that world in bold and unexpected ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orphan made close to $78 million at the global box office. In the film, a\u00a0husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be.<\/p>\n<p>Orphan: First Kill grossed $37 million worldwide. In it, Esther escapes from an Estonian psychiatric facility and travels to\u00a0 America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family, pitting her against a mother who will protect her family at any cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to the Orphan franchise prequel Orphans from Dark Castle Entertainment, Deadline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,112924,409,111,139,69,89146,89147,112925],"class_list":{"0":"post-176130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-isabelle-fuhrman","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-orphan","15":"tag-orphan-3","16":"tag-orphans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}