We can reveal that
Jacob Elordi and
Lily-Rose Depp, two of the industry’s buzziest young names, are set to star in
Outer Dark, a film based on iconic author
Cormac McCarthy’s (
No Country For Old Men) dark 1968 novel.
The “dark fairytale”, which is being lined up to shoot in 2026, will mark the English-language debut of Oscar-winning
Son Of Saul filmmaker Laszlo Nemes.
Outer Dark is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother’s baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside, three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear
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