Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac
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Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac are set to star in Flesh of the Gods, a vampire thriller to be directed by Panos Cosmatos, the filmmaker best known for his hallucinatory 2018 horror movie Mandy.
Adam McKay is producing this new feature along with Betsy Koch via the duo’s Hyperobject Industries production company. Isaac is also producing via his partner Gena Konstantinakos via their banner Mad Gene Media.
CAA and WME will handle domestic rights sales with XYZ Films handling international sales at this year’s Marché du Film at Cannes.
Written by Andrew Kevin Walker, best known as the screenwriter behind 1990s classic Se7en, and based on a story by Cosmatos and Walker, Flesh is set in Los Angeles during the glittering 1980s.
Per the producers, the story follows a married couple, Raoul (Isaac) and Alex (Stewart), who descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into an electric nighttime realm of 80’s LA. When they cross paths with the mysterious and enigmatic woman and her hard-partying cabal, Raoul and Alex are seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills, and violence.
“Like Los Angeles itself Flesh of the Gods inhabits the liminal realm between fantasy and nightmare,” said Cosmatos in a statement. “Both propulsive and hypnotic, Flesh will take you on a hot rod joy ride deep into the glittering heart of hell.”
The producers hope to begin shooting later this year.
Panos Cosmatos
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“We think it’s wildly commercial and wildly artful,” hyped McKay in a statement. “Our ambitions are to make a movie that ripples through popular culture, fashion, music, and film.”
Flesh marks the third collaboration between Cosmatos and XYZ. In addition to Mandy, the two parties also have Nekrokosm in development with A24.
Stewart last starred in crime thriller Love Lies Bleeding, directed by Rose Glass, which was released earlier this year by A24.
Isaac launched Mad Gene Media with his wife, writer and director Elvira Lind, in 2019. The first project under their banner, The Letter Room, was a short film written and directed by Lind and starred Isaac. It received a nomination at the 2021 Academy Awards. The actor last appeared on screen as the lead in Marvel’s Moon Knight series.
Isaac is repped by WME and Goodman, Genow while Stewart is repped by WME and McKuin Frankel. Cosmatos is repped by CAA and Weintraub Tobin and Walker is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Ziffren Brittenham.
