Cordyceps fungi are taking over Hollywood! The Last of Us just got renewed for a third season, and David Koepp’s novel Cold Storage has been adapted into a film and is set to premiere in theaters sometime later this year.
The adaptation of Koepp’s sci-fi comedy has some known names in horror (and elsewhere) attached. It stars Joe Keery—sporting a different but equally memorable hairdo than he does in Stranger Things—as well as Georgina Campbell (Barbarian), Sosie Bacon (Smile), Vanessa Redgrave (Mission: Impossible), Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), and Liam Neeson (Taken).
Here’s the official synopsis:
Teacake (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell), two young employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old US military base, have their wildest night shift ever when a parasitic fungus escapes from the lowest sublevel of the base, where it was sealed by the government decades before. As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants—human and otherwise.
With time running out, it’s down to Teacake and Naomi, with the help of a grizzled bioterror operative (Neeson), to contain the rapidly mutating menace and prevent the explosive extinction of mankind itself.
Koepp, who penned the film adaptation of Jurassic Park and also the scripts for Mission: Impossible, and whose excellent Steven Soderbergh collaborations, Presence and Black Bag, both came out this year, adapted the screenplay from his novel. Jonny Campbell, whose credits include directing two episodes of Doctor Who (2010’s “The Vampires of Venice” and “Vincent and the Doctor,” if you’re curious) and an episode of Westworld, is helming the production.
Samuel Goldwyn Films will distribute Cold Storage in the United States sometime later this year, though we sadly don’t have an official release date yet.