US EditionJacob Elordi & Lily-Rose Depp To Star In Cormac McCarthy Adaptation ‘Outer Dark’ — Red Hot Project Bubbling At The Cannes Market
- Oscar-Winning director Laszlo Nemes will make his English-language debut directing Outer Dark, starring Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp, set to shoot in 2026.
- The project follows the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 1968 novel Outer Dark, a dark fairytale set in Great Depression-era Appalachia about a sister who bears her brother's child.
- In the story, the brother abandons the newborn in the woods and lies about its death, prompting the sister to search for the baby while both are pursued by three deadly strangers.
- Nemes expressed that adapting "Outer Dark" into a film has been a long-held aspiration since he first encountered the book, describing the project as a thrilling road movie and a profound, haunting exploration of the human spirit.
- The film, produced by Good Chaos with Mike Goodridge and others, suggests a unique cinematic world inspired by McCarthy’s profound source material and benefits from two buzzy rising stars.
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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. The “dark fairytale”, which […]
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