Deadline reports that as both writer and director, Kent has begun work on the period thriller set in Tasmania, 1825.
The film centers on a “beautiful 21-year-old Irish convict” will most likely portray her guide.
The non-rhetorical answer to that rhetorical question: The movie they make afterward.
In 2014, Jennifer Kent wowed audiences with her fully-formed horror parable The Babadook, mining the frustrations of single motherhood for chills and creating a memorable monster along the way.