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Jonathan Groff & Ben Aldridge To Play A Couple In M. Night Shyamalan’s Next Film
It’s gay dads vs. home intruders during the apocalypse.
Out actors, Jonathan Groff (Looking) and Ben Aldridge (Fleabag) are set to embrace their inner daddies in the upcoming film Knock at the Cabin by master of horror and all things twisty, M. Night Shyamalan, reports Bloody-Disgusting.
Groff and Aldridge play parents of a seven-year-old daughter named Wen, and when the family heads away to a remote cabin they’re set upon by an unusual trio of home invaders with a strange and terrifying agenda. The film is based on the novel The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay (A Head Full of Ghosts) and has been described as a home invasion horror film that takes place during the apocalypse.
Here’s a synopsis from the back of the book:
“Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.
One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, and friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault”. Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.”
Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined.”
\u201cM. Night Shyamalan\u2019s \u2018Knock at the Cabin\u2019 is officially an adaptation of \u2018The Cabin at the End of the World.\u2019\n\nA couple (Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge) and their daughter\u2019s cabin is invaded by strangers (Dave Bautista,\u00a0Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird) who take them captive.\u201d— Film Updates (@Film Updates) 1658150954
Starring alongside Groff and Aldridge are Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint, and Nikki Amuka-Bird as the strangers that arrive at their home and take the family captive.
The film has reportedly wrapped filming and is aiming for a February 2023 release date.
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Rachel Shatto, Editor in Chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and their frequent intersection). Her work has appeared on Dread Central, Elite Daily, Tecca, and Joystiq. She's a GALECA member and she podcasts regularly about horror on the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network. She can’t live without cats, vintage style, video games, drag queens, or the Oxford comma.
Rachel Shatto, Editor in Chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and their frequent intersection). Her work has appeared on Dread Central, Elite Daily, Tecca, and Joystiq. She's a GALECA member and she podcasts regularly about horror on the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network. She can’t live without cats, vintage style, video games, drag queens, or the Oxford comma.
