Italian-Canadian filmmaker Panos Cosmatos is set to helm a vampire thriller set in 1980s Los Angeles with Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac playing a married couple. We can now share the casting update that actress Elizabeth Olsen (“Seven Sisters”) has officially joined the horror flick hailing from XYZ Films.
The new horror film boasts a script from veteran screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who previously worked on David Fincher‘s “Se7en” and “The Killer” along with the lesser-known Joel Schumacher-directed nihilistic snuff film thriller “8mm” that featured Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, and James Gandolfini. Walker also co-wrote the film’s story with Cosmatos.
Domestic rights for the flick are co-repped by CAA Media Finance and WME Independent, with XYZ Films continuing international sales at the upcoming Marché du Film at Cannes.
An official synopsis for “Flesh of The Gods” provided to us:
In glittering 80s LA, married couple Raoul (Isaac) and Alex (Stewart) descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into an electric nighttime realm of 80s Los Angeles. When they cross paths with the mysterious and enigmatic Nameless (Olsen) and her hard-partying cabal, Raoul and Alex are seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills, and violence.
Going by the character’s description, Olsen has likely been tapped to play the aforementioned vampire of the film.
A producing team assembled for “Flesh of The Gods” includes Adam McKay and Betsy Koch of Hyperobject Industries, along with Isaac and Gena Konstantinakos for Mad Gene Media.
Cosmatos previously directed “Behind The Black Rainbow,” the cult revenge thriller “Mandy” that starred Cage, and helmed “The Viewing,” a visually stunning and gory episode of “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities” on Netflix.
It certainly sounds like Tony Scott‘s criminally underrated vampire movie “The Hunger” might be heavily inspiring “Flesh of The Gods,” but we’ll see, considering both Walker and Cosmatos aren’t exactly predictable creatives.
