EXCLUSIVE: David Prior’s adaptation of
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s 2024 horror novella series
The Boy in the Iron Box is rounding out its ensemble cast with Chris Petrovski (
Ray Donovan: The Movie), Aksel Hennie (
Sisu), Arnas Fedaravičius (
The White Lotus), Eugene Prokofiev (
Never Have I Ever), Johannes Haukur Johannesson (
Succession), and Julian Kostov (
The White Lotus).
They join the previously announced Rupert Friend, Kevin Durand and Jaeden Martell.
The logline: Flying dark, a plane carrying a team of mercenaries crash-lands on a remote snowy summit. When they come across a maze-like stone fortress, it’s no refuge from the wolves and the freezing wind. It’s more like a trap. What they discover can stop the heart — or worse. As terror takes a new shape, the real battle for survival begins.
Prior directed an episode of del Toro’s
Cabinet of Curiosities for
Netflix and serves as the writer and director of
The Boy in the Iron Box. Del Toro is producing the adaptation alongside J. Miles Dale, the former’s longtime collaborator, with whom he has worked on a variety of projects that include the Academy Award-winning film
The Shape of Water and the aforementioned
Cabinet of Curiosities.
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