Room

After making his name with a series of sensitive, low key character dramas, Irish director Lenny Abrahamson took an unexpected left turn with last year s willfully weird, Fassbender led music biz comedy Frank. So he has the necessary understanding of intimacy and profound human strangeness to adapt Emma Donoghue s 2010 bestseller, inspired by the Josef Fritzl scandal, about a young boy and his mother held captive for years in a single room. For actress Brie Larson, the pic reps an opportunity to build on the critical good will she accumulated for 2013 s Short Term 12.