Neon on pole for Nicolas Cage’s horror thriller Longlegs is EFM’s first major domestic deal

EXCLUSIVE: Neon in pole position to secure North American rights to Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe horror thriller Long legs at EFM’s first major domestic deal this year.

The multi-million dollar deal being worked on with CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group is ongoing, but we understand it’s moving in that direction. Neither party could be reached for comment.

Buyers have told us this over and over again this week Long legs was one of the pre-sale projects they liked the most. Black Bear is internationally known and has pre-sold most overseas territories here in Berlin.

Pic follows FBI agent Lee Harker (Monroe), a talented new recruit with the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complicated turns and evidence of the occult comes to light, Harker discovers a personal connection to the ruthless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of yet another innocent family.

Directed and written by Osgood “Oz” Perkins (I am the beautiful thing that lives in the house), the film is currently being shot in Vancouver, Canada. C2 Motion Picture Group by Jason Cloth and Dave Caplan (Babylon) produced.

Producers are Cage with his production company Saturn Films, Dan Kagan, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Caplan and Chris Ferguson. Cloth, Fred Berger and John Friedberg are executive producers.

Monroe is known for genre photography It follows, The host And Greta and Guardian. Cage comes from the breakout genre Pig – also distributed by Neon – and Lionsgate Comedy The unbearable weight of an enormous talent.

parasite Distributor Neon is back in the heat of the action this year with Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or winner triangle of sadness, which has three of the company’s six Oscar nominations. The distribution producer is with Brandon Cronenberg in Berlin infinity poolwhich also played Sundance.

As we revealed, the biggest deal so far at this year’s EFM is the Prime Video deal for the international rights to the Zoe Saldaña project the bluff. Prime Video is also in advanced negotiations for some of the international rights to the Jude Law package The order, a deal first reported by Variety . While this deal covers some key overseas territories, to our knowledge the film has also been sold to independent distributors in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Israel and a few other markets. Domestic transactions at the EFM have so far been very rare.