Simon Pegg is to head up a starry horror comedy about Mary Shelley, Lovecraft, Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe...
Horror legend Jeffrey Combs is well known for his collaborations with director Stuart Gordon, which resulted in such wildly entertaining films as Re-Animator, From Beyond, and The Pit And The Pendulum.
Combs is set to star in The Gathering, which sounds like the kind of film he'd make with Gordon. In it, Combs will play Edgar Allan Poe - a role he's inhabited twice for Gordon, first in TV's The Masters Of Horror: The Black Cat, and a second time in a stage production called Nevermore.
The Gatheringwill be directed by Jon Keeyes, whose previous films include Phobia(2013) and Fall Down Dead (2007). Essentially an anthology film, the premise behind The Gathering is quite ingenious: the Devil (who'll be played by Simon Pegg) gathers together a group of famous writers on Halloween night: Mary Shelley, HP Lovecraft, Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe. They each get to tell their scariest, never-before-heard tale, and the teller of the scariest story will be given a way out of purgatory.
Aside from Combs as Poe, The Gatheringwill also star David Naughton as Lovecraft and Doug Bradley as Bram Stoker, while the supporting cast will include Udo Kier, Clint Howard, Robert Englund, Gunnar Hansen and William Sadler. The role of Mary Shelley hasn't been cast yet, but the director says he has a "couple of major female names" who are interested in joining the starry cast.
Fangoriahas the exclusive on the project, and there's much more detail to be found in their full story.
The Gathering goes before cameras in May 2015.
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