Kristen Stewart is going to vamp it up once again, only this time the Twilight star is teaming with Oscar Isaac for Mandy director Panos Cosmatos’ 80s set vampire thriller Flesh of the Gods.
The source of that mad but exciting sentence is Variety, who reveal that the Love Lies Bleeding (read our ★★★★ review here) and Moon Knight star have been tapped to play an affluent couple who are seduced into the dark underbelly of the New York nightlife.
Flesh of the Gods has been written by Se7en and 8MM scribe Andrew Kevin Walker, from a story created with Cosmatos, and is being produced by Adam McKay and Betsy Koch of Hyperobject Industries.
Per Variety’s report, the film is set in glittering ’80s L.A., where married couple Raoul (Isaac) and Alex (Stewart) each evening descend from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into the city’s electric nighttime realm. When they cross paths with a mysterious and enigmatic figure known as Nameless and her hard-partying cabal, the pair are seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills and violence.
In a pitch which sounds in-line with his acclaimed Nic Cage nightmare Mandy, Cosmatos described Flesh of the Gods as a film which “inhabits the liminal realm between fantasy and nightmare, both propulsive and hypnotic, Flesh will take you on a hot rod joy ride deep into the glittering heart of hell.”
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Originally published May 3, 2024. Updated May 4, 2024.
