Contemporary off this 12 months’s field workplace hit Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins is headed into the world of Stephen King with The Monkey, a movie adaptation of King’s same-titled quick story.
From NEON and producer James Wan, The Monkey hits theaters February 21, 2025.
Leisure Weekly scored a handful of first-look pictures from The Monkey this morning, whereas additionally providing up some insights from director Osgood Perkins and producer James Wan.
The piece describes The Monkey as a horror-comedy tackle Stephen King’s story, with Osgood Perkins’ pitch for the fabric leaning closely into the humorous madness of the premise.
He explains his preliminary pitch to EW, “What if it’s a comedy? Right here’s this monkey that doesn’t do something. It’s not M3GAN. It doesn’t assault. It’s evil simply in its existence. Issues occur round it for no higher cause than they do. Its presence makes individuals die in insane methods.”
Perkins continues, “All people dies whether or not there’s a monkey or not. What in the event you might do that with a smile — course of the truth that all people dies? And what an insane, surrealist notion, dude! You’ll die; we’ll all die. That’s loopy shit. To do this as a comedy felt very apropos.”
The Monkey star Theo James describes the movie as an R-rated household film, one which’s “hyper darkish, but additionally it has coronary heart to it.” James provides, “and it’s actually humorous.”
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The Monkey is a brief horror story that appeared in Skeleton Crew, a 1985 assortment that additionally featured The Mist, The Jaunt, The Raft, Survivor Sort, The Attain, and extra.
Tatiana Maslany (She–Hulk: Lawyer at Legislation), Elijah Wooden (Maniac), Christian Convery (Candy Tooth), Colin O’Brien (Wonka), Rohan Campbell (Halloween Ends) and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek) additionally star within the subsequent horror film from Osgood Perkins.
“In The Monkey, when twin brothers Hal and Invoice uncover their father’s previous monkey toy within the attic, a sequence of ugly deaths begins occurring throughout them. The brothers resolve to throw the monkey away and transfer on with their lives, rising aside over time.
“However when the mysterious deaths start once more, the brothers should reunite to discover a approach to destroy the monkey for good earlier than it takes the lives of everybody near them.”
