‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Gets Prequel on Paramount+

Rosemary’s Child is getting a prequel movie on streaming.

The movie is titled Condo 7A and it’s set to premiere later this 12 months on Paramount+.

Launched in 1968, the movie grew to become one of many defining horror movies of its period. Directed by Roman Polanski, it starred Mia Farrow as a younger girl who turns into pregnant after which fears her little one will be the Antichrist.

Right here is how Paramount+ describes this new movie:

Set in 1965 New York Metropolis, and tells the story previous to the legendary horror traditional ‘Rosemary’s Child’, exploring what occurred within the house earlier than Rosemary moved in. When a struggling, younger dancer suffers a devastating damage, she finds herself drawn in by darkish forces when a peculiar, well-connected, older couple guarantees her a shot at fame.

Julia Garner performs the lead position within the movie. Natalie Erika James is Condo 7A’s director.

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Polanski’s movie was based mostly on the novel by Ira Levin. After it grew to become an enormous hit, it did get a sequel on tv in 1976 dubbed Look What’s Occurred to Rosemary’s Child. It did characteristic Ruth Gordon reprising her position from te unique movie, however Farrow was changed by actress Patty Duke. The movie received horrible opinions and is usually thought of one of many worst sequels in historical past.

Ten years in the past NBC made a miniseries model of Rosemary’s Child starring Zoe Saldana within the Farrow position.

Condo 7A may even star Dianne Wiest, Jim Sturgess, and Kevin McNally. It’s going to premiere this fall on Paramount+. The service is hyping it as a launch designed to “kick off the Halloween season” so it appears to be like to be an early fall launch.

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