The classic Edgar Allan Poe history The Mask of the Red Death is getting a new film adaptation from A24 and Picturestart, and Sydney Sweeney (Immaculate, Anyone but you) is in talks to become the star.
The film was written and directed by Charlie Polinger (Fuck me, Richard) and the film is said to be a “wildly revisionist and darkly comic interpretation of the tale”.
Poe’s original story was published in 1842 and is a chilling allegory about humanity’s futile attempts to escape death. It follows Prince Prospero who, along with his wealthy courtiers, isolates himself in an opulent fortified abbey to avoid a deadly plague known as the Red Death.
Inside the abbey, the prince hosts a lavish masquerade ball in a series of brightly colored rooms, each symbolizing different stages of life. The revelry is interrupted when a mysterious figure appears, clad in clothes resembling the symptoms of the plague.
Prospero confronts the figure, only to fall dead, revealing that the figure is the embodiment of the Red Death itself. The guests also succumb, as the plague proves inevitable.
The story was brought to the big screen in 1964 thanks to the director Roger Cormanand he was the protagonist Vincenzo Price. I loved that movie.
Deadline reports that the new film will shoot this year.
Source: deadline
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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