When you first movie is a cult sensation and your second movie is ... troubled, it's best to have a third project waiting in the wings. Fortunately for Donnie Darko and Southland Tales director Richard Kelly, that third flick is -- after a long gestation period -- finally coming together. According to Variety, veteran character actor Frank Langella will be joining Cameron Diaz in the horror film The Box. The trade paper says Langella will play "a stranger who presents a mysterious box to a woman." How's that for a killer role?But Variety also reminds us that The Box is based on an old Richard Matheson story called Button, Button. (The basic premise is this: You're given a magical box and if you press the button, you become rich -- but a total stranger will die. You may remember this story from an episode of the "new" Twilight Zone that ran in the late '80s.) Although Eli Roth used to be connected to this project (as a writer, I believe), it now looks like it's Kelly's show all the way. When Cinematical interviewed Kelly at Fantastic Fest, he had this to say regarding The Box: "But my next movie is a psychological thriller, it's PG-13, has a mainstream concept, and it's something the studio is much more comfortable in committing to right away, telling us they'll put it on 2500 screens." So it's a horror film, but we're talking
And just in case you forgot, another Matheson adaptation -- I Am Legend -- hits theaters in December.
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10-12-2007 @ 11:04AM
kristian volsing said...
Vacancy was an 18 in this country (US equivalent, I believe, is an NC-17?). Do all your horror movies get cut to shreds and we see them 'uncut' in the UK?
I am assuming a PG-13 is like a 12A in the UK (Under 12s can't go without an adult).
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10-12-2007 @ 11:15AM
Erik Davis said...
That's my fault -- I was editing, and put in Vacancy when I was thinking 1408. My bad.
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