Neon Picks Up Osgood Perkins & James Wan’s The Monkey

It’s Cannes season, and along with superior screenings of upcoming movies, studios are looking at what films to buy for residence or worldwide distribution. Considered one of many films accessible available on the market all through the pageant is The Monkey, which found a US distributor in Neon.

Directed by Osgood Perkins and produced by horror huge James Wan, Deadline reported the film was locked in a “multi-buyer tug of battle” after a model new promo carried out on the Croisette street. Neon lastly acquired with a seven-figure deal, and reunites the studio with Perkins, who the studio appears to be all-in on. Along with this, Neon’s distributing every his upcoming horror flick Longlegs (releasing in July) and his supernatural thriller Keeper. Black Bear International beforehand secured non-US distribution for The Monkey ultimate 12 months, and funnily enough, it was moreover all through Cannes season.

King launched The Monkey as a quick story for a 1980 journal, then re-released a further punched up mannequin inside 1985’s temporary story assortment Skeleton Crew. The story services on twins Hal and Bill, who uncover their dad’s outdated toy monkey, which causes a string of grotesque murders spherical metropolis. Though the boys immediately wipe their palms of the state of affairs and put it once more inside the attic, they reunite as adults when the murders start up as soon as extra and take it upon themselves to kill the toy for good.

For the film adaptation, X-Males ‘97’s Theo James will pull double obligation as Hal and Bill as adults, whereas Sweet Tooth’s Christian Convery will play the youthful mannequin of the twins. Eljiah Wood, Tatiana Maslany, Colin Wood, Sarah Levy, and Rohan Campbell moreover star.

Typically, there’s two movement photos a 12 months (at minimal) based mostly totally on King’s work that come out in theaters or streaming. For 2024, the one movie on the docket (that we in the meanwhile know of) is Salem’s Lot, which includes Max later this 12 months. With The Monkey now inside the mix, followers of the author’s work might get a double dip of adapations to scare them all through the horror season.

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