Simon Pegg Will Play The Devil in THE GATHERING
Simon Pegg playing the Devil?! Sounds good to me! The actor has been cast in a horror comedy called The Gathering, and it sounds awesome! I never thought I’d see Pegg as the Devil, but now that it’s out in the universe it makes complete sense. The movie is being directed by Jon Keeyes, and he talked to Fangoria about the project. This is how he describes the fantastic story that he’s going to tell:
“On Halloween night, the devil brings together Mary Shelley, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allan Poe in purgatory to tell their best untold tales, the idea being that whoever has the best story of the night gets to leave purgatory forever ... We've tried to put a spin on the essence of the stories they're most well-known for. So Stoker tells a vampire tale, but it's not about Dracula. H.P. Lovecraft's story is sort of Re-Animator-esque, set in the Victorian era.
“We've approached it with the idea of what these writers would be like all these years since they died. They've got a slighty modern sensibility, as if they've kept up with the changing times while they've been in purgatory, while still holding onto the personalities and nuances they would have had in the eras they lived in. So there's a whole lot of bickering and rivalry.”
Now wait until you see this cult classic cast. Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) has been cast as Poe, David Naughton (American Werewolf in London) is playing Lovecraft, and Doug Bradley (Hellraiser) is taking on the role of Bram Stoker. Pegg’s addition to the cast is just the icing on the horrific cake. Keeyes also reveals the following other cast members:
“We've got Udo Kier, Clint Howard, Robert Englund, Lin Shaye, Ashley Laurence, Gunnar Hansen, Bill Moseley, Debbie Rochon, and William Sadler committed to do the movie — it's a huge cast.”
That, my friends, is Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, Chop Top, the Ice Cream Man, and the Grim Reaper, all in the same movie!
The Gathering begins shooting in May 2015, and I'm way excited to see it come together.
