Sydney Sweeney Up For A24’s “Red Death”

Sydney Sweeney is in negotiations to star in “The Masque of the Red Death” at A24 and Picturestart. The project is said to be a “wildly revisionist and darkly comedic” take on the famed Edgar Allen Poe short story.

That original short story follows Prince Prospero’s attempts to avoid a dangerous plague by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ball.

In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters, and Prospero and the guests also die.

The concept was given a modern interpretation recently in Mike Flanagan’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” series, the abbey becoming a nightclub where an unfortunate mix-up leads to a group of influencers effectively being melted alive.

Details on this new take are being kept under wraps, but the film will be shot this year. Playwright Charlie Polinger will write and direct, and executive produce alongside Lucy McKendrick.

Sweeney is currently filming “The Housemaid” for Lionsgate, while Polinger is in post-production on the Joel Edgerton-led “The Plague”.

Source: Deadline

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