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Osgood Perkins is working on a new project Long legs The film is the follow-up to the director’s mystery horror film that became the highest-grossing independent film of the past decade.
And in the development of Long legs Rules of the Game Instead of original distributor Neon being involved, this one has Skydance-owned Paramount Pictures as the project’s new home.
Paramount has acquired the rights to the new mystery Long legs The project, which Perkins wrote and will direct and produce. Nicolas Cage returns as star and producer.
Brian Cavanaugh Jones of Range Media is also producing; Chris Ferguson, Perkins’ partner in their company Phobos; and C2’s Dave Kaplan, who financed the initial film.
Paramount and Perkins are keeping details downstairs but sources confirm this is new Long legs Not a sequel but something “set in the movie”. Long legs universe.”
Longlegs was a surprise hit when Neon released it in 2024, launching Perkins as a celebrated horror filmmaker and establishing the bona fide star Maika Monroe. The actress played an FBI agent with clairvoyance, investigating a series of murders and suicides in Oregon linked to a serial killer nicknamed Longlegs. Cage played Longlegs in a gonzo performance.
Long legs It earned $128 million worldwide on a budget of less than $10 million, becoming Neon’s highest-grossing domestic film. The film has injected many powerful ingredients into its cauldron, including magic, mind manipulation, satanic worship, creepy dolls, and crime procedurals, making the story world fertile for further exploration.
Neon stepped aside when the scope and budget of the new project exceeded the company’s normal standards, sources say.
New Paramount studio management, under the leadership of Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg, has placed a strong emphasis on horror in its slate. It has two horror-focused production entities, a label run by J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules (barbaric), and Walter Hamada’s 18 Hz productions, the latter behind the upcoming productions passenger It is set for a May 22 release. There’s also a first-look deal with Parker Finn, the director behind the film He smiles films. It is also being relaunched Paranormal activity Franchise produced by horror experts James Wan and Jason Blum, all the while basking in the glow of the record-breaking success of Screaming 7which scared away $211.9 million when it was released earlier this year.
Perkins went on to direct horror films Monkey and a guard He has wrapped production on his latest scary film, YouthIt stars Nicole Kidman, Lola Tong, and Nico Parker.
Cage’s next big outing will be starring in Amazon Prime Video’s Spider-Man series Spider Noirwhich will debut in May. Later in the year, he played the great footballer John Madden in David O. Russell’s film Madden.
Perkins is repped by CAA, Untitled and Lichter Grossman, while Cage is repped by WME, Stride Management and Goodman Genow.
