It’s Cannes season, and together with superior screenings of upcoming movies, studios are what movies to purchase for home or worldwide distribution. One of many movies available on the market through the pageant is The Monkey, which discovered a US distributor in Neon.
Directed by Osgood Perkins and produced by horror large James Wan, Deadline reported the movie was locked in a “multi-buyer tug of struggle” after a brand new promo performed on the Croisette road. Neon in the end received with a seven-figure deal, and reunites the studio with Perkins, who the studio seems to be all-in on. Together with this, Neon’s distributing each his upcoming horror flick Longlegs (releasing in July) and his supernatural thriller Keeper. Black Bear International beforehand secured non-US distribution for The Monkey final yr, and funnily sufficient, it was additionally throughout Cannes season.
King launched The Monkey as a brief story for a 1980 journal, then re-released a extra punched up model within 1985’s brief story assortment Skeleton Crew. The story facilities on twins Hal and Invoice, who discover their dad’s previous toy monkey, which causes a string of grotesque murders round city. Although the boys instantly wipe their arms of the state of affairs and put it again within the attic, they reunite as adults when the murders begin up once more and take it upon themselves to kill the toy for good.
For the movie adaptation, X-Males ‘97’s Theo James will pull double obligation as Hal and Invoice as adults, whereas Candy Tooth’s Christian Convery will play the younger model of the twins. Eljiah Wooden, Tatiana Maslany, Colin Wooden, Sarah Levy, and Rohan Campbell additionally star.
Usually, there’s two motion pictures a yr (at minimal) based mostly on King’s work that come out in theaters or streaming. For 2024, the one film on the docket (that we presently know of) is Salem’s Lot, which involves Max later this yr. With The Monkey now within the combine, followers of the creator’s work could get a double dip of adapations to scare them through the horror season.
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