Nicolas Cage and The Producer of MANDY will Reteam For H.P. Lovecraft’s COLOR OUT OF SPACE
Nicolas Cage is set to star in a film called Color Out of Space which is based on H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 novella. The film is being produced by SpectreVision, who also produced Cage’s crazy-ass horror film Mandy.
This story will be set in the present day and it centers on the Gardners, “a family who moves to a remote New England farmstead to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. It seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color, and to the family’s horror they discover the alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches including them.”
The movie will be directed by South African filmmaker Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil, The Island Of Dr. Moreau ) and apparently this will be his first feature film in 20 years. The movie also stars Joely Richardson, Tommy Chong, Elliot Knight, Julian Hilliard and Q’Orianka Kilcher.
SpectreVision’s Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Lisa Whalen and Elijah Wood are producing, with Timur Bekbosunov, Johnny Chang, Emma Lee and Peter Wong executive producing for ACE Pictures. Noah had this to say in a statement:
“Lovecraft is the dark father of modern horror, and we have been searching for an adaptation that captures the true scope of his cosmic dread for years. Richard Stanley — a wizard in his own right — will at long last bring Lovecraft’s humbling power to the screen unfiltered.”
I can’t wait to see how this movie turns out! There’s no doubt that it’s going to be entertaining and I’m especially excited to see what Cage ends up bringing to the film, especially after seeing what he brought to Mandy.
Source: Deadline