Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood Topline Gerald’s Game for Netflix
Debi Moore
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Earlier this year we learned that Mike Flanagan is directing an adaptation of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game for Netflix, and now that filming has commenced, we have some casting news and a few more details to share.
From the Press Release:
Netflix announced today that Carla Gugino (The Space Between Us, San Andreas, Watchmen) and Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek into Darkness, Star Trek) will star as Jessie and Gerald in Mike Flanagan’s (Ouija: Origin of Evil, Hush, Oculus) Gerald’s Game for Intrepid Pictures.
Flanagan adapted the script, which is based on Stephen King’s 1992 suspense novel of the same name, with Jeff Howard (Oculus, I Know What You Did Last Summer). Intrepid Pictures’ Trevor Macy will produce the thriller, which Netflix will distribute exclusively worldwide.
Henry Thomas (Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gangs of New York), Carel Struycken (Men in Black), Kate Siegel (Hush, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Oculus), and Chiara Aurelia (“Agent Carter,” Big Sky, “Pretty Little Liars”) round out the cast, with principal photography beginning today in and around Mobile, Alabama.
Gerald’s Game follows Gerald and Jessie Burlingame, who have gone to their summer home on a warm weekday in October for a romantic interlude. After being handcuffed to the bedposts, Jessie tires of her husband’s games, until things take an unexpectedly tragic turn. Still handcuffed, she is trapped and alone. Painful memories from her childhood bedevil her. Her only company is a hungry stray dog and the voices that populate her mind. As night comes, she is unsure whether it is her imagination or if she has another companion: someone watching her from the corner of her dark bedroom.
Director Flanagan said: “Gerald’s Game has been my dream project for nearly twenty years. As a lifelong fan of Stephen King, it is a true honor to be trusted with this amazing material. I am deeply grateful to my long-time partner, Trevor Macy, and to my new partners at Netflix for making this dream project a reality. This is one of the reasons I wanted to make movies in the first place.”
Gerald’s Game marks Macy and Flanagan’s fifth collaboration since 2013, following: Oculus and Before I Wake for Relativity; Hush for Netflix; and Ouija: Origin of Evil, which Universal Pictures will release on October 21st.
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