Léa Seydoux joins Mikey Madison in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death
If Gothic horror film fans have yet to come down from the excitement of The Bride!’s trailer dropping last week, then this news on an upcoming adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe classic will not help the calming process.
It has been confirmed that France’s beloved Palme d’Or-winning actress Léa Seydoux, known for Crimes of the Future and Dune: Part Two, has been cast in A24 and Picturestart’s upcoming The Masque of the Red Death, a cinematic re-telling of Poe’s chilling 1800s prose of the same name. Seydoux will reportedly star alongside Academy Award winner Mikey Madison, Deadline reports, yet her exact part is yet to be specified.
The Masque of the Red Death centres on Prince Prospero as he seeks refuge in his abbey from a deathly plague known as The Red Death. To distract himself from the fear of being infected, the Prince invites other wealthy nobles to visit a selection of assigned coloured rooms and attend a selection of masquerade balls, where an unidentified guest creeps through each room, leaving a trail of mystery and death in their wake.
Charlie Polinger is set to re-interpret the story for a potentially satirical take with an appropriately dark comedic tone, given the subject matter focusing on the rich dancing and drinking while plague takes thousands of lives outside of their privileged bubble. Nothing too close to anything that’s ever happened in our world.
Polinger’s debut, The Plague, previously premiered at Cannes last year.
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