Nicolas Cage and Osgood Perkins clarify why Cage’s disturbing serial killer character is being saved underneath wraps in Longlegs.
The advertising behind Osgood Perkins’ upcoming Longlegs has been simply great, conserving us intrigued each step of the way in which whereas preserving the thriller. Past a couple of bits and items, we’ve additionally seen little or no of Longlegs, the titular serial killer performed by Nicolas Cage, and that’s by design.
Whereas talking with Entertainment Weekly, Perkins defined that we received’t be seeing a giant reveal of Longlegs earlier than the film hits theaters. “It’s driving people towards a freak show at a circus tent,” Perkins mentioned. “We’ve acquired the factor behind the scenes, and when there’s sufficient folks gathered ’spherical, we’re going to tug the curtain.“
Even within the movie itself, Perkins performed with conserving Longlegs obscured so long as doable so that you’re all the time straining for a glance, even when he’s not there. “Editing a picture is a nearly psychedelic experience,” he mentioned. “It truly is as a result of it’s so infinite. The permutations and mixtures you will get from placing this there and that there, you’re in a Rubik’s Dice of potentialities. I believe we discovered the candy spot. This man lives simply exterior the consciousness of our protagonist. He’s there, however he’s completely not there, however he’s completely there.“
Cage had his personal perspective on conserving Longlegs underneath wraps. “It’s the equivalent of putting a warning label on a jar of nitroglycerin,” Cage mentioned. “The monster is a extremely, extremely harmful substance. The best way it’s moved, unveiled, deployed needs to be handled very fastidiously. Overlook concerning the movie show blowing up; the entire metropolis may blow up, nay the nation, possibly even the world. He’s going to alter your actuality. Your doorways of notion are going to open, and your life shouldn’t be going to be the identical.“
Directed and written by Osgood Perkins (I Am the Fairly Factor That Lives within the Home), Longlegs stars Maika Monroe as FBI Agent Lee Harker, “a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.” Along with Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, Longlegs additionally stars Alicia Witt (City Legend), Blair Underwood (LA Regulation), and Kiernan Shipka (Mad Males). The movie is alleged to be “in the vein of classic Hollywood psychological thrillers” and shall be launched on July twelfth.
