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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Jacob Elordi & Lily-Rose Depp To Star In Cormac McCarthy Adaptation ‘Outer Dark' — Red Hot Project Bubbling At The Cannes Market
EXCLUSIVE: Here's a very cool project bubbling at this year's Cannes market. 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. More from Deadline Tribeca Title 'Dog of God' Acquired For France As Media Move Launches Sales - Cannes Market 'Dossier 137' Director On Cannes Ban Of His Film's Actor Accused Of Sexual Assault: "I Understand Their Decision" International Insider: Cruise In Cannes; Standing Ovations; Chinese Box Office Future 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. Nemes wrote the screenplay with Clara Royer, while Mike Goodridge of London-based Good Chaos is producing alongside Nemes; executive producers are Ilene Feldman, Ori Eisen of Original Films and Nicolas Gonda. Good Chaos and Nemes have the book-to-screen rights. Goodridge, the Triangle Of Sadness co-producer who has Left-Handed Girl playing at this year's festival, is among the team on the ground in Cannes in early talks with potential partners for the project. It's not formally on sale here but there are likely to be plenty of suitors to finance or get behind it. We understand the actors really sparked to the material and both are coming off big successes. It's fitting stuff for both: Depp is coming off Oscar-nominated box office hit Nosferatu, another dark fairytale, while Euphoria and Priscilla star Elordi is coming off excellent notices for The Narrow Road To The Deep North and will next be seen as the creature in Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein, as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights and in Ridley Scott's Dog Stars, which is in production. Laszlo Nemes said: 'Since reading Outer Dark the first time, it has been my dream to make it into a film, and to find the appropriate cinematic language that would do justice to Cormac McCarthy's evocative and cosmological work. Joined by two magnetic actors, I now feel it's possible. The extraordinary source material is a profound inspiration to build a unique world that vibrates with life and death at the same time. An exciting road-movie, a terrible and beautiful journey into the labyrinth of the human soul – this is the ambition I have for Outer Dark.' Nemes recently completed his third film Orphan (also produced by Goodridge) which is scheduled to premiere at a festival later this year before its October 23 release in Hungary. He will next shoot Moulin, a French-language feature about WWII resistance fighter Jean Moulin which is being sold at the Cannes market by 193. Gilles Lellouche and Lars Eidinger are starring for producer Alain Goldman. Alongside Orphan, Goodridge is also in post-production on Edward Berger's next film, The Ballad Of A Small Player, starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton. Cormac McCarthy's lauded novels adapted for the screen include Oscar winner No Country For Old Men and Viggo Mortensen starrer The Road. Elordi is repped by Gersh and Goodman, Genow. Depp is repped by CAA, Markham, Froggatt & Irwin, Agence Adequat, and Lichter, Grossman. Nemes is represented by CAA and Ilene Feldman Management. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery Where To Watch All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies: Streamers With Multiple Films In The Franchise Everything We Know About 'My Life With The Walter Boys' Season 2 So Far
Geek Tyrant
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp Team Up for Cormac McCarthy's OUTER DARK Adaptation — GeekTyrant
Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp are set to star in a new adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's haunting 1968 novel Outer Dark , and it's shaping up to be a bold, unsettling ride. Directed by Oscar-winning Son of Saul filmmaker László Nemes, Outer Dark marks his first English-language feature and is set against the bleak backdrop of Depression-era Appalachia. It tells the story 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.' Described as a 'dark fairytale,' the film is expected to begin shooting in 2026. Clara Royer, who previously collaborated with Nemes, co-wrote the screenplay. Nemes said in a statement: 'Since reading Outer Dark the first time, it has been my dream to make it into a film, and to find the appropriate cinematic language that would do justice to Cormac McCarthy's evocative and cosmological work. Joined by two magnetic actors, I now feel it's possible. 'The extraordinary source material is a profound inspiration to build a unique world that vibrates with life and death at the same time. An exciting road-movie, a terrible and beautiful journey into the labyrinth of the human soul – this is the ambition I have for Outer Dark.' The cast is more than up for the material. Lily-Rose Depp is coming off the back of Nosferatu , a gothic horror that earned critical acclaim and became a box office success. Meanwhile, Elordi, following acclaimed turns in Priscilla and The Narrow Road To The Deep North , is already locked into a stacked slate: he'll appear next as the monster in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein , as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights , and in Ridley Scott's upcoming Dog Stars . Nemes recently wrapped Orphan , his third feature, and he's also prepping Moulin , a WWII drama about French resistance hero Jean Moulin. For fans of Cormac McCarthy's bleak, poetic brand of American gothic, which include No Country For Old Men and The Road , this new film has serious promise. Source: Deadline
Time of India
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp Set to Star in 'Outer Dark' Adaptation
Actors and are in talks to star in 'Outer Dark'. According to the entertainment news outlet Deadline, the upcoming film is an adaptation of 1968's novel by Cormac McCarthy. Described as a "dark fairytale", the film is directed by Hungarian filmmaker Laszlo Nemes, who is marking his English-language debut. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now He is best known for directing " Son Of Saul ", for which he got an Oscar in Best Foreign Language Film category. "Set in Appalachia during the Great Depression, "Outer Dark" tells the story 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," reads the plotline. The shooting of the film is slated to begin in 2026.
Pink Villa
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Jacob Elordi, Lily-Rose Depp Join Forces for Cormac McCarthy's Adaptation of Outer Dark; DEETS About Upcoming Project
The Kissing Booth star Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp are set to star in the upcoming adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark. The movie will be based on the novel penned in 1948. The project is set to begin production in 2026 and will mark the English film debut of the Oscar-winning filmmaker, Laszlo Nemes. As for the plot of the movie, Outer Dark will revolve around the story of a young woman who bears her brother's baby during the Great Depression. Following the birth of the child, the brother leaves it in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the infant died due to natural causes. Upon learning the truth, the woman sets out to find the baby. As the siblings move their separate ways into the countryside, three men with evil mindsets are on their trail, wishing destruction. Expressing his excitement about the upcoming project, the filmmaker said at the Cannes Film Festival, 'Since reading Outer Dark the first time, it has been my dream to make it into a film and to find the appropriate cinematic language that would do justice to Cormac McCarthy's evocative and cosmological work. Joined by two magnetic actors, I now feel it's possible.' He further added, 'The extraordinary source material is a profound inspiration to build a unique world that vibrates with life and death at the same time. An exciting road movie, a terrible and beautiful journey into the labyrinth of the human soul—this is the ambition I have for Outer Dark.' Moreover, Nemes completes his third film, titled Orphan, which is set to premiere later at the ongoing festival. Apart from the new adaptation, Cormac McCarthy's adaptations, No Country for Old Men and The Road, have been heavily lauded by the audience.
Telegraph
28-02-2025
- General
- Telegraph
I pride myself on being a miserable-middle aged man
Men often take a bashing when it comes to emotions, and feelings. We are grumpy, irritable and emotionally repressed, apparently. The latest pseudo-diagnosis being offered for this is ' miserable man syndrome ', typified by the male propensity to pessimism. According to some, this can be a slow growing cancer in relationships, a corrosive drip-drip that eventually gives out. Everything is seemingly fine until one day you forget to put the bins out and an emotional sinkhole appears. Hell ensues. 'But it was only the bins,' you bleat weakly through the yells, knowing full well it wasn't just the bins, it was the pent-up response to all those years of the eye-rolling and huffing you did each time you were asked to do the bins. But is it really so bad to get narked at each other's foibles in a relationship? Of course not. It's okay to lose your composure occasionally when the dishwasher isn't loaded properly, because honestly, how hard can it be? Embrace gentle melancholy Miserable man syndrome should really be middle-aged man syndrome, and in some cases, simply man, because it's not a syndrome at all, it's who we are, particularly as we age. Some outliers might remain jauntily optimistic and emotionally intelligent in the face of hair loss and erectile dysfunction, but in my experience most men of a certain age delight in gentle melancholy. I certainly do and have learnt to embrace this facet of my personality and celebrate it. In many ways I'm proud of it. I feed it and nurture it. When my wife is away on work trips, for example, I sneak to the theatre alone to watch tragedies. This week it was Elektra, a plodding production about parental murder and bitter vengeance. I enjoyed telling anyone who would listen the next morning how bad it was. Last summer on holiday I skipped the latest Lee Child and read Cormac McCarthy's gruelling The Road instead, followed by the grimly bleak Prophet Song. They ensured a cloud hung over me, despite sitting under a clear blue Corsican sky. Generation X gloom Perhaps it's a generational thing. I am 55 and Generation X. I became culturally aware in the early Eighties under the shadow of the threat of nuclear annihilation and listened to the gloomy shoegazing music of The Cure, The Smiths and New Order. The following decade Victor Meldrew seeped into my subconsciousness. My wife tells me that while I'm not necessarily grumpy, I do tend to focus on 'the pessimistic side', which I correct as being 'the realistic side'. She, on the other hand, is the opposite and wildly optimistic. She even runs a company called Laughology. On paper we shouldn't work, but we do because we complement each other. She is the bright yang to my black yin. She acts as a brake to my gloom and surprisingly we laugh a lot, because we share the same warped sense of humour. Mine is just a little more fatalistic. 'It's your detailed and slow brain. You think things through too much and get stuck in what you can't do rather than what you can do,' she counsels when I moan about one of the regular gripes, like not having enough money, or time. Or not understanding some of the house rules, which make me miserable. Observe the towel protocol My slow brain doesn't compute the towel, bedding or crockery protocols, for example. As far as I can ascertain there are three levels, and each level depends on who is using them. There are ones for everyday use, then a guest level and finally the mystical level three, or Defcon 1 as I call it, which is, as far as I can gather, reserved for visiting heads of state and minor deities. When I'm pulled up for some minor infraction of the rules, or for not folding the bedding properly, or storing it in the right drawer, I sulk, then pettily get my own back by telling guests what level they have achieved, and that they are not deemed worthy of the top level. In truth, the towel thing is not a biggie. But that's not the point. I look for things like this to wind me up. Men do; it's our hobby. I enjoy getting angry at other road users, hurling abuse when I'm safely out of eyeline and earshot. It helps me let off steam. And maybe I am a tad too obsessional about the parking in the access road behind my house, often sitting at the desk in my home office, monitoring both the Ring doorbells I've set up to police the area, drunk on omniscience. Often, you can hear me over the Ring equipped with a loudspeaker. 'You can't park there. It's a private road,' I yell at people, who look around confused, trying to find the source of the disembodied voice, before they clamber back inside their vehicles and pootle off to find some other place to obstruct. Delightful. Revel in the misery You could argue that now, more than ever, the grumpy man is in ascendance, because the world is currently a dark place. What a time to be alive! I often revel in the misery of it all, doom scrolling at regular intervals through the day, chasing a fix of misery. My best friend is even more miserable than me and we meet monthly to drink beer and dissect the world and all its gloom. Our glasses are neither metaphorically half-full nor half-empty. They're all empty. And chipped. It is in our nature, so cut us some slack. Celebrate it with us. Gives us a little sympathy. Midlife generally is tough enough for all of us. While men don't go through anything like the profound changes that women have to cope with in the menopause, we do naturally weaken and slow. Hair spouts from our nostrils and ears. It takes a monumental effort to stay fit and healthy so many don't bother. We develop expanding midriffs that spread no matter how many miles we pedal on our expensive bikes, tucked into Lycra that mocks our silhouettes, collecting injuries like trophies. Happy ever after Indeed, one of the worst things you can do to feed the male mindset of misery is to pathologise it and label it a syndrome. Because we love to bang on about our ailments and injuries, even though we never go to the doctor. Walk into any gym changing room and I guarantee the first thing you'll hear from any of the older gentlemen will be a moan about a niggle. We wear ripped ligaments and tennis elbows with pride. Meanwhile we have David Beckham in his budgie smugglers and Hugh Jackman's ripped torso as impossible role models to measure up to. And as for relationships? In mine, we accept each other and our failings. We laugh at ourselves. This, I think, is the key. And while I'm not a psychologist, if you find yourself stuck with a grumpy man, know that relationships like yours generally follow an arc similar to the Kübler-Ross model of grief. Stage one is denial. 'He can't be that miserable for no reason. Is it something I'm doing?' Then comes anger: 'Why is he so bloody miserable all the time?' Next, bargaining: 'If we watch the Hungarian Grand Prix, will you cheer up?' Then depression: 'This is making me miserable.' Finally, acceptance: 'I tolerate his misery.' Get to that stage and you've got a decent chance of living happily ever after.
