Lily-Rose Depp & Jacob Elordi Set For Outer Dark

Lots of deals and announcements are happening with the Cannes Film Festival underway across in , and one such project will have many cinema fans excited.

Deadline are reporting that Jacob Elordi (Saltburn, Frankenstein) and Lily-Rose Depp (Nosferatu, The Idol) are set to star in Outer Dark, a new film based on legendary author and writer Cormac McCarthy’s novel, first released in the 1960s. McCarthy is famous for many of his works being turned into films, including No Country For Old Men, The Road and The Counsellor.

The film is to be the English-language debut of Laszlo Nemes, the award-winning filmmaker of Son Of Saul and Sunset, and whose next film, entitled Orphan, is set for release soon, potentially later this year and which is also being shopped at the festival this year. Outer Dark is set to film in 2026.

Synopsis:

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.

Nemes has written the screenplay with Clara Royer.

Both actors have been busy: Depp is coming off the huge success of Nosferatu; Elordi is back filming Euphoria whilst he has three big films on the way: Guillemo Del Toro’s Frankenstein opposite Oscar Isaac and Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights alongside Margot Robbie. He is also starring in Dog Stars from Ridley Scott.

US!!! WE ARE A SMALL, INDEPENDENT FILM WEBSITE WITH NO BIG BACKERS, SO IF YOU LOVE OUR SITE AND OUR WRITERS, PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING US TO KEEP FILM JOURNALISM ALIVE!