Issa Lopez Set to Adapt OUR LADY OF TEARS Into Feature Motion Picture Based on True Events for Blumhouse

Issa Lopez, writer and director of Tigers Are Not Afraid, has been picked up by Blumhouse to write and direct the upcoming film Our Lady of Tears. The story is based on true events that were chronicled in Epic Magazine By Vox, in an article by Daniel Hernandez, about a group of girls at a Catholic School in Mexico City in 2007 who were stricken by an unexplainable outbreak that some said had to be supernatural.

Here’s a description of the scene from New York Magazine:

It was March 2007 and nearly everyone at Girlstown, a Catholic boarding school in Chalco, Mexico, was panicked. Months earlier, some students had begun complaining of a piercing sensation in their legs. Some were overcome with nausea and fevers. Some talked of suicide. State and federal inspectors and epidemiologists were sent to test the environment: the food, the water, the soil. But the results showed nothing unusual. Then they tested the girls themselves — for brucellosis, leptospirosis, and rickettsiosis. Still, they found nothing. It was as though the school had fallen under a spell.

Lopez is excited to get started on the story, as she feels a close connection to its roots:

“The moment I read the Epic article, I knew I wanted to tell this story,” Lopez said in a statement. “I myself attended a Catholic school in Mexico City. I grew up on a steady diet of supernatural visitations and miracles, and of the real life horrors that young girls who grow up in poverty face every day in Mexico, and around the world. Having the chance to tell that story with Jason and his team, producers of such socially incisive genre classics like Get Out, and of so many true horror gems, is a huge privilege. I couldn’t be more excited about this movie.”

This is a crazy story, and it will be really interesting to hear all the details. Have you heard about this story before? Will you be checking out Our Lady of Tears?