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MBC Studios is gearing up for a 2026 merchandise of Hana Alomair’s Traveller’s Hell pursuing nan tests of a young female who unwittingly picks up a serial slayer posing arsenic a stranded motorist connected a distant upland road.
First announced successful 2024, it is is simply a landmark accumulation for MBC Studios, some for its female driven genre storyline and arsenic nan first characteristic for pioneering Saudi head Alomair.
She antecedently co-wrote and directed Whispers, 1 of Netflix’s first original bid pinch Saudi Arabia successful nan aftermath of nan state opening up successful 2017.
It is among a trio of adaptations of bestselling writer Osamah Almuslim successful nan useful astatine MBC Studios, highlighted successful a merchandise by nan accumulation limb of nan MBC Group summing up its activities arsenic it attended Cannes.
The section arrived successful nan show aft a bruising container agency reception regionally and further afield for its $150m epic Desert Warrior, 1 of nan first productions it sewage down pursuing nan lifting of Saudi Arabia’s cinema prohibition successful 2017.
The connection from executives connected nan crushed was that while that accumulation had grounded to present astatine nan container office, it had provided valuable lessons arsenic Saudi Arabia began building accumulation capacity successful earnest successful nan early 2000s.
MBC Studios is besides gearing up for nan sprout of Spider’s Web, its 2nd characteristic adapted from an Almuslim’s scary novel, successful nan 4th fourth of nan year.
It follows a group of Saudi female students successful Riyadh who statesman to fishy that their mysterious neighbour is progressive successful thing sinister, only to uncover an moreover much terrifying secret.
The section is besides astir to statesman accumulation connected a 3rd Almuslim adaptation, nan imagination tv bid Khawf (Fear), first announced successful 2023.
Adapted from his bestselling caller of nan aforesaid name, nan communicative revolves astir a young man who receives a unusual book from a mysterious sheikh, mounting disconnected a concatenation of terrifying events erstwhile he originates reference it.
MBC Studios’ upcoming accumulation slate besides includes action-comedy movie Mafiosos astir 2 Saudi brothers who recreation to Italy for business, only to find themselves entangled pinch nan Italian mafia. The movie is written by Saudi writers Nawaf Al-Muhanna and Hazem Al-Jaryan.
Further productions see Forever, a romanticist emotion communicative written by Saudi character and writer Sarah Taibah, who precocious took acting, producing and co-writing credits connected A Matter Of Life & death.
The group besides teased plans for a caller associated characteristic pinch Sattar and Mandoob accumulation institution Telfaz11 by nan extremity of nan year.
““Our attraction remains connected supporting section voices and building productions that bespeak nan richness, ambition, and diverseness of Saudi storytelling,” said Samar Akrouk, Managing Director of MBC Studios and Group Director of Production astatine MBC Group.
