The Immaculée actress is being courted by A24, but with a twist: it will be a “black comedy”, warns the studio.
While the third season ofEuphoria should be filmed soon, the interpreter of Cassie could also play in an adaptation of the gothic short story The Mask of the Red Death, written by Edgar Allan Poe. Taken from the collection Extraordinary new stories (translated into French by Charles Baudelaire), it tells the story of prince Prosperowho locks himself in an abbey in order to escape a devastating epidemic called “red death”.
The fable of Mask of the Red Death has already been the subject of several cinematographic adaptations, notably by Roger Corman in 1964, with Vincent Price in the role of the prince. Recently, she was at the heart of The Fall of the House of UsherMike Flanagan’s series inspired by all of Poe’s work.
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A new version undertaken by production companies A24 et Picturestart is currently being manufactured, reveals Deadline. The actress Sydney Sweeney, revealed to the general public in the HBO series Euphoria et White Lotusis currently in talks to participate in the project. The direction and writing of the film is entrusted to Charlie Polinger (which is currently refining The Plaguewith Joel Edgerton).
-In 2024, we had the opportunity to see Sydney Sweeney in diverse and varied roles. Aside from the flop of Madame Webshe was able to confirm her talents in the romcom Everything except youor even in the horror film Immaculatea genre in which she was particularly comfortable. For 2025, the American actress already seems to be on very good momentum! We already know that she will be starring in the remake of the cult classic Barbarella and the Lionsgate adaptation of the novel The Housemaid. She will also play the boxer Christy Martinin a biopic directed by David Michôd.
The Mask of the Red Death would be an opportunity to discover Sydney Sweeney in a gothic register, who is making her return to cinema, notably with the latest Nosferatu by Robert Eggers. The American article specifies that it will be a “deep proofreading” of Poe’s short story. We can therefore expect a result quite different from the original work, Deadline speaking so clearly about “dark and comic vision.”
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