‘When the Bough Breaks’ recently released its second official trailer featuring new footage of terrorized young couple played by Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall. Jaz Sinclair also stars as a psychotic surrogate mother who becomes obsessed with the father-to-be.
According to MovieWeb, Sony Pictures’s Screen Gems unveiled the second official trailer for director Jon Cassar’s upcoming psychological thriller film. It stars Chestnut and Hall as two professionals seeking the help of a surrogate to bear their child. The first trailer was released last April at the CinemaCon.
Chestnut and Hall play John and Laura Taylor, a young couple who desperately want a baby. After exploring their options, they are left with little to no choice and hire a woman named Anna (Jaz Sinclair) to be their surrogate. However, Anna begins showing signs of psychotic tendencies further along the pregnancy as she becomes fixated on John.
According to Comingsoon.net, Cassar and the production crew spent a month filming on-location in New Orleans. Cassar shot scenes in a large classic home in the Garden District as well as at the outskirts of the locale.
It was revealed that Cassar drew inspiration from other psychological thriller films from the past including Adrian Lyne’s ‘Fatal Attraction’ and Curtis Hanson’s ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’. Cassar revealed, “The thing that really attracted me to this was putting characters in a situation that has a moral choice, a choice to be made and for the audience to play along and go ‘what would I do?’”
He continued, “There is a decision that has to be made. I always say, if there’s a husband and wife watching the show, one thinks it’s one way, one thinks it’s the other way. If they’re arguing on the way home, I did my job.”
The film’s plot was originally a classic thriller set in Los Angeles about an upscale Caucasian couple attempting to conceive a child. However, Screen Gems executive producer Clint Culpepper managed to procure the script and pass it along to co-executive producer and star Morris Chestnut with whom he had signed a producing deal with.
Chestnut recalled, “I read it and I could tell it wasn’t written for black actors… But I loved the script and the scale of it. [It] is much bigger than any other movie I’ve EP’d before.”
Cassar added, “I have to give that to Clint Culpepper and Screen Gems. They’re making an effort to do that, not to make stereotypical African American films. This is a film, a thriller, it could have been anyone. As long as the story was solid it didn’t matter what the race was.”
‘When The Bough Breaks’ is an upcoming drama-thriller film scheduled to be released on September 9, 2016. It is produced by Screen Gems and Unique Features and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
