French actress Léa Seydoux is set to join Mikey Madison in A24’s feature adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s creepy gothic tale The Masque of the Red Death.
The feature will be directed by Charlie Polinger, who made his directorial debut with 2025’s The Plague, starring Joel Edgerton, with Julia Hammer, Erik Feig, James Presson, and Lucy McKendrick set to produce under the Picturestart banner. While A24 is still keeping the main plot details about the reimaging under wraps, The Hollywood Reporter reports that Madison will be portraying twin sisters in the story, which centers around a “mad prince” who takes in the noble class to his castle while plague devastates the peasantry.”
The story follows one of the twins, long-lost from her sister and living among the lower-class, as she gets a chance to be in the castle and is transported to a world of “orgies, opium, power schemes, revenge and decapitations.” Seydoux’s character is described as a “scheming lady-in-waiting who is conniving her way to the top.”
Seydoux is known for her prolific career in both French cinema and Hollywood, culminating in accolades such as the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, two Lumière Awards, and five César Award nominations. In Hollywood, Seydoux made her mark with her role in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, where she starred as Charlotte LaPadite.
The BAFTA nominee has also been a part of three blockbuster franchises; playing an assassin in the fourth installment of the Mission: Impossible series, Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol and more of a lead role as Dr. Madeline Swann in the last two films of the James Bond franchise: Spectre and No Time to Die, and finally, her role as Lady Margot Fenring in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two.
The year ahead will also be a big one for Seydoux as she is starring in three feature films that include The Unknown, which will be directed by Anatomy of the Fall screenwriter Arthur Harari, David and Nathan Zellner’s Alpha Gang that co-stars Cate Blanchett and Chris Pine, and Marine Kreutzer’s Gentle Monster.
Polinger will executive produce, and A24 will distribute worldwide. Production is set to start in February and shoot in Hungary.
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