Osgood Perkins, Nicolas Cage Team with Paramount for New ‘Longlegs’ Movie

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  1. yourfavchoom on

    > Osgood Perkins is working on a **new Longlegs feature,** a follow-up to the filmmaker’s mystery horror thriller **that became highest grossing independent film of the past decade.**

    > And in a twist out of the Longlegs playbook, rather than original distributor Neon being involved, **this one has Skydance-owned Paramount Pictures as the project’s new home.**

    > Paramount has picked up the rights to the new mystery Longlegs project, which **Perkins has written and will direct as well as produce. Nicolas Cage is returning as star and producer.**

  2. Upbeat_Tension_8077 on

    I’m curious to see where this goes, especially if Cage maybe plays a different killer in the Longlegs universe, or if it captures more of the Longlegs killer’s past

  3. Three_Froggy_Problem on

    As a certified Longlegs lover, I’m down. Give me more of that little freak.

  4. Expensive-Ninja-9665 on

    that’s an interesting combo, can’t wait to see what they come up with! hopefully it’s as wild as it sounds.

  5. Isn’t the whole point of Longlegs film that >!it’s wasn’t really the killer, it was the devil that was doing the killings through Longlegs!<

    What could they do to expand the universe? >!Longlegs and devil early adventures?!<

  6. Robsonmonkey on

    Prequel is the only kind of way they can go if Cage is involved but I’m tired of prequels, you know what’s going to happen or at least part of the outcome

    I think the only prequel I could say did it super well has been Better Call Saul.

  7. Redmoonsbstars1 on

    Definitely won’t have the same success as first movie. Part of why it did so well was the teasers and mystery behind it the story,cages face all that. With the mystery gone I suspect a way less successful.

  8. Weapons is getting a prequel movie for its freaky bad guy, so Paramount looked at Longlegs and went “sure, why not?”

  9. NoLeadership2281 on

    Didn’t Cage say in an interview that playing this kind of character is a one time thing for him 

  10. Man I loved the first half of that movie, and then the third act was so fucking bad I couldn’t believe it was the same film. The long ass exposition montage was one of the worst scenes I’ve ever seen. The big secret behind the killer who somehow leaves no trace and has no acomplices is that he has an acomplice who leaves fingerprints and traces blood everywhere with no fucks given. I’m getting mad just thinking about it.

  11. So we’re getting a Weapons prequel explaining the villain of that film and now a Longlegs prequel (probably) explaining _the villain of that film_.

    Not really excited by either idea tbh

  12. A_Peacful_Vulcan on

    “DADDYYYYY MOMMYYYYY UNMAKE MEEEE AND SAVE MEEEE FROM THE HELL OF LIVING!”

  13. NightsOfFellini on

    I’m happy to have my fave actor starring in movies of larger budgets as he’s closing in on retirement from the form, so I’m optimistic. That said, Longlegs ended up being pretty weak and a prequel is difficult to be excited about. But I have hope that there’s some interesting hook.

  14. It’s weirder that this is going to be with Paramount than it is that he’s making a sequel to Longlegs. He’s worked exclusively with Neon thus far and I figured that would continue.

  15. I hope it has a super cut of Longlegs singing different versions of his creepy song, demanding to be let into people’s homes only to have the door slammed in his face time and time again.

  16. My biggest gripe with Longlegs is that it seemed like everyone lived in the same small town, including everyone at the FBI.

  17. webshellkanucklehead on

    I’m curious how this’ll work… And Oz is hit or miss for me. But when he hits, he hits HARD imo. Longlegs was one of those for me so I’m in.

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