Neon’s Next Horror Film: The Southern Gothic Horror ‘King Snake,’ Starring Margaret Qualley!
Neon just celebrated a killer opening weekend for their original horror, Hokum, and now they’ve set their sights on their next big horror offering: King Snake.
Neon, which is also the Oscar-winning studio behind Parasite and Anora, has acquired U.S. rights to King Snake, the next film from Loving and Mud director Jeff Nichols, reports Variety.
The Southern Gothic horror film stars Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Drew Starkey (Hellraiser, Queer), and Michael Shannon (Take Shelter, Bug).
The supernatural horror follows a young couple (Qualley and Starkey) who inherit a farm in rural Arkansas and must conquer the demons, both physical and metaphysical, that haunt its legacy…forces of good and evil collide in a terrifying film where real-world challenges crash headlong into otherworldly creatures and myths.
Filming is currently underway in Arkansas.
The news comes just ahead of Cannes, where Neon will arrive with an ambitious slate.
The studio has several films in competition, including:
• James Gray’s Paper Tiger
• Arthur Harari’s The Unknown
• Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord
• Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden
• Hirokazu Koreeda’s Sheep in the Box
• Na Hong-Jin’s Hope
In Directors’ Fortnight, the studio will debut:
• Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri’s Clarissa, a modern reimagining of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• David Greaves’ Sundance hit Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Rounding out the slate, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell will screen out of competition.
So much good stuff!
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