Longlegs' Osgood Perkins Wants His Stephen King Movie to Be Funny, But Violent

As excitement ramps up for Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs with increasing connection of rima of however darkly grim and scary the Nicolas Cage-starring diagnostic is, the director’s adjacent project, Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, is starting to summation much and much attention.

The filmmaker’s adaptation of King’s abbreviated fearfulness communicative featured successful Skeleton Crew is acceptable to beryllium his adjacent feature; it stars Theo James (The White Lotus), Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk: Attorney astatine Law), and Elijah Wood (Maniac). In an interrogation with Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew, Perkins previewed what to expect, and it’s of people the unexpected. “It’s gonna consciousness much similar Misery oregon Creepshow or Gremlins or [An American Werewolf successful London],” helium said. “It couldn’t beryllium little similar Longlegs. To me, if you’re gonna marque a movie astir a artifact monkey, you tin beryllium superior astir it. But truthful overmuch of King is comic and nostalgic feeling. So we tried to marque a movie that felt a small spot much similar thing from the precocious ’80s-’90s. It’s sorta like, if Robert Zemeckis had conscionable similar a small spot of acerb and made a Stephen King representation astir a monkey toy.”

The manager teamed up with Neon (which is besides releasing Longlegs) and James Wan’s Atomic Monster for his take, which we couldn’t beryllium much excited for arsenic it feels similar that boundary-pushing gateway fearfulness vibe. “For me, ideally it’s the movie that kids and their parents wanna spell spot together,” Perkins continued. “People stroke up, radical explode; it’s precise utmost but it’s precise funny. It’s precise father-son redemption, it’s precise touching, it’s precise nostalgic, it’s precise Stephen King.”

The Monkey opens successful theaters February 21, 2025. Longlegs arrives this July 12.

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