J.A. Bayona, who directed the 2007 horror movie “The Orphanage” and the 2012 drama film “The Impossible”, has reemerged to create the fantasy drama “A Monster Calls”. Ness, who wrote the book of the same name, claims his screenwriting debut with the film.
Ness’s story begins with a young boy, Conor O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall), dealing with many hardships such as his mother’s (Felicity Jones) terminal cancer and with his grandmother (Sigourney Weaver)’s irritability.
One night, seven minutes after midnight, Conor…