Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, Immaculate) is in talks to join The Masque of the Red Death, a new take on the Edgar Allan Poe story from A24, Picturestart, and writer-director Charlie Polinger (The Plague).
The original story, first published in 1942, is a gothic horror tale about a prince who attempts to survive a deadly plague by taking refuge alongside other nobles in his secure abbey, only for a mysterious stranger to bring death to the court after a masquerade ball.
The Masque of the Red Death has been adapted into various media countless times over the years, perhaps most notably with Roger Corman’s 1964 film starring Vincent Prince. Details on this latest version are being kept under wraps, but the project is described as “a wildly revisionist and darkly comedic take” on the gothic tale.
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Sydney Sweeney is coming off a busy 2024 which saw her brushing aside Sony’s superhero flop Madame Web with the hit rom com Anyone But You and the Neon horror Immaculate. She is currently shooting Paul Feig’s The Housemaid, has the survival thriller Eden, thriller Echo Valley, and a Christy Martin biopic all in the can, and is expected to reunite with the cast of Euphoria imminently to shoot the third season of the HBO show.
Via Deadline
