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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The film will adapt another book by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country for Old Men, The Darkness Out There.
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 […]
Jacob Elordi seems to have become the ideal pair of any romantic leading duo. This summer he will accompany Daisy Edgar-Jones in Indomitables, while in 2026 he will be one of the two faces that will command the new adaptation of Borosque Summits, together with Margot Robbie. Now, according to American media, Euphoria’s actor could join Lily-Rose Depp to share screen in The Outer Darkness, one of the first novels released by Novel winner Cormac M…
Hollywood's rising stars Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp will star in László Nemes Jeles' first English-language film. The Oscar-winning Hungarian director is adapting Cormac McCarthy's 1968 novel Outer Dark, with filming scheduled to begin in 2026.
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