This one might be too good to be true. Coming to the Cannes sales floor is Flesh of the Gods, a 1980s vampire thriller set in LA and directed by Panos Cosmatos, the filmmaker whose 2018 horror Mandy became a cult classic. Not only that, but the film will star Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac, working from a script by Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker. Damn!
Oh yeah, and Adam McKay is a producer.
Here’s how the press release describes Flesh of the Gods: In glittering 80’s LA, married couple, RAOUL (Oscar Isaac) and ALEX (Kristen Stewart), descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into an electric nighttime realm of 80’s Los Angeles. When they cross paths with the mysterious and enigmatic NAMELESS 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,” Cosmatos said in a statement. “Both propulsive and hypnotic, “Flesh” will take you on a hot rod joy ride deep into the glittering heart of hell.”
Cosmatos became a genre favorite with his 2010 film Beyond the Black Rainbow. He has been quiet since releasing Mandy in 2018, but looks to be making a comeback in a big way with Flesh of the Gods.
Isaac was last seen in the Disney+ Marvel series Moon Knight, however he did voice Miguel O’Hara in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Stewart can be seen right now in the acclaimed thriller Love Lies Bleeding, which is streaming now.
Expect Flesh of the Gods to be a huge package up for sale at Cannes. If we’re lucky it’ll get rolling soon and arrive in 2025. [THR]
