With COVID-19 seemingly ruining so many of the movies we were anticipating for 2020, it’s good to know that Netflix has us covered. The streamer has announced they’ll release the star-studded film The Devil All the Time, which features pretty much everybody that we all like in one movie, this September.
The Devil All the Time stars Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Sebastian Stan, Mia Wasikowska, Bill Skarsgard, Haley Bennett, Riley Keough, Eliza Scanlen, and Jason Clarke. Hot damn. And to think, it almost had Chris Evans, too. You’ve got a couple of Marvel alums, Batman, Pennywise, Beth March, Terminator, a Mad Max: Fury Road star, and Bennett, who is just a damn fine actress who recently starred in the acclaimed film Swallow.
So who’s in charge of all this? That would be director Antonio Campos, known for the films Afterschool and Christine, both of which made a big splash on the festival circuit. Suffice it to say there will be a lot more eyes on this than anything he’s done before.
The film is based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel that follows a strange assortment of characters from WWII to the 1960s. Here’s the book breakdown:
“Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.”
The Devil All the Time debuts on Netflix on September 16th.
