Who says only men are haunted by the ghosts of war? Hilary Swank will show us how horrific it can be for both genders in this upcoming 2012 horror picture.
Written and directed by Shawn Lawrence Otto (The House of Sand and Fog), Dreams of a Dying Heart will be produced by U.K. company Intandem Pictures and will be one of the few movies to incorporate a woman's experience as a soldier in the current Iraq war.
Rachel Watson (Hilary Swank) returns home after surviving a fatal chopper crash, but soon after her husband Dan and 16-year old daughter Clara meet her at the airport, strange things begin to happen. The ghost of a boy dressed in blue seems to be haunting her. She wakes up screaming and covered in blood. Pictures of her are missing from the wall. Odd voices are on the phone. And a strange middle-easterner is in her house, slowly seducing her daughter, and is somehow in league with the unbalanced wife of a soldier Rachel slept with on her tour of duty. Soon Rachel begins to realize that reality is not at all as it seems, and that she's in a fight for her very life - and that of her only daughter.
Producers include Christine Vachon (Boys Don't Cry, One Hour Photo) and Katie Roumel (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An American Crime) and the film will co-star Matthew McConaughey and Josh Brolin. It'll start shooting this October, 2010!
Sounds like a total clusterfuck of derivative Oscar-baiting ideas.