New Horror Thriller in Development Based on the YA Novel NON MI UCCIDERE

Italian director Andrea De Sica (Children of the Night, Baby) has been tapped to helm the upcoming adaptation of the bestselling YA novel Non Mi Uccidere. The film Children of the Night and the Netflix series Baby also feature dramatic teen stories with dark or borderline horror narratives, so the director is familiar with the content. Variety reports the following description of the story:

The book – written by late cult author Chiara Palazzolo, with a title that translates as “Don’t Kill Me” – is about a 19-year-old named Mirta, who, with her older lover, Robin, dies of a drug overdose. She then resuscitates alone to find out that in order to continue living, and cherishing the memory of Robin’s love, she must eat living humans.

The report also spoke with the director, who described the film as “not a full-fledged horror film but more a strange coming-of-age” tale, and said he sees it “as the romantic and scary story of a young woman who dies and then resuscitates for love.”

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