Should you appreciated Longlegs, and you are a fan of Stephen King, then you definitely’ll in all probability be excited to listen to about The Monkey.
You would not assume that one thing referred to as “The Monkey” may instil any type of concern in an individual, however truthfully, monkeys are fairly scary, and the monkey in query definitely raises a couple of alarms. Longlegs director Osgood Perkins has definitely discovered success with the horror movie, main its distributor to choose up one other horror title that did very properly on Kickstarter, in addition to a brand new Steven Soderbergh horror flick too. And clearly Perkins has no intention of attempting out another genres in the intervening time, as his subsequent movie is the aforementioned The Monkey, which simply bought its first trailer yesterday – you possibly can examine that out beneath.
Watch on YouTube
It is only a brief teaser trailer, set to some barely distorted circus music, all whereas a toy monkey that performs on a tiny snare drum performs a bit of solo, main as much as one of many movie’s stars Theo James being lined in a complete lot of blood. There is not a lot there, but it surely undoubtedly units the tone for what we will anticipate from the movie.
The movie is predicated on King’s brief story of the identical title, and follows twin brothers Invoice and Corridor, each performed by James, who discover an outdated toy monkey that belonged to their father of their childhood attic. Abruptly, individuals begin dying, resulting in them throwing the monkey away – the one downside is, years later, having drifted aside, the deaths begin taking place once more, which means they’re going to must discover a technique to destroy the monkey for good.
It has a reasonably sturdy forged, as James shall be joined by The Lord of the Rings’ Elijah Wooden, She-Hulk’s Tatiana Maslany, The Man within the Excessive Fortress’s Laura Mennel, Schitt’s Creek’s Sarah Levy, Wonka’s Colin O’Brien, Halloween 2018’s Rohan Campbell, and Candy Tooth’s Christian Convery. Noticed and Insidious co-creator James Wan can also be hooked up as producer.
You may have to attend a short while to examine The Monkey out although, because it’s at present set to launch February 21, 2025.