Nicolas Cage to star in Richard Stanley's Color Out of Space

It has been announced that Nicolas Cage is set to star in Hardware director Richard Stanley’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s novella, Color Out of Space. This will be Stanley’s first film since 1992’s Dust Devil and the first since he was fired from his adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau. The movie will also star Joely Richardson, Tommy Chong, Elliot Knight, Julian Hilliard, and Q’Orianka Kilcher. Principal photography will begin next month.

Stanley’s film concerns The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches…including them.

Color Out of Space will be produced by SpectreVision’s Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Lisa Whalen and Elijah Wood. Timur Bekbosunov, Johnny Chang, Emma Lee and Peter Wong will executive produce for ACE Pictures. Stacy Jorgensen will executive produce for SpectreVision.

“Lovecraft is the dark father of modern horror, and we have been searching for an adaptation that captures the true scope of his cosmic dread for years,” Noah said in a statement. “Richard Stanley — a wizard in his own right — will at long last bring Lovecraft’s humbling power to the screen unfiltered.”

“ACE Pictures Entertainment is thrilled to finance and co-produce Color Out of Space,” said Chang. “The adaptation by Richard Stanley is outstanding and unique, a perfect canvas for Nicolas Cage’s inimitable acting style. We are tremendously excited to continue our partnership with SpectreVision and their signature style of genre.”

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