Ancient, wild, and relentless, the Monster guides Conor on a journey of courage, faith, and truth. Conor’s fear gives way to feistiness and then to looking within for, The Monster demands that once the tales are told it will be time for Conor to tell his own story in return. The Monster has stories to tell, and he insists that Conor hear them and powerfully visualize them.

He unexpectedly summons a most unlikely ally, who bursts forth with terrifying grandeur from an ancient towering yew tree and the powerful earth below it: a 40-foot-high colossus of a creature (portrayed in performance-capture and voiceover by Liam Neeson) who appears at Conor’s bedroom window one night – and at that time on nights thereafter. As Conor’s father (Toby Kebbell) has resettled thousands of miles away in the U.S., the boy yearns for guidance. school is one of academic disinterest and bullying by classmates. He is dealing with his mother’s (Felicity Jones) illness, which has necessitated Conor’s spending time with his less-than-sympathetic grandmother (Sigourney Weaver). The screenplay adaptation is by the book’s author, Patrick Ness, who wrote the novel from an original idea by the late Siobhan Dowd.ġ2-year-old Conor O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall) is about to escape into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales. Bayona ( The Impossible, The Orphanage), A Monster Calls is a visually spectacular and stunningly emotional drama based on the award-winning novel. “I saw this as a powerful and important story to tell as a movie – an adventure that anyone can relate to.”ĭirected by J.A.

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