COLD STORAGE: Samuel Goldwyn Nabs North American Rights To Jonny Campbell’s Sci-Fi Comedy
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired Dracula helmer Jonny Campbell’s new sci-fi romp, Cold Storage, for North American theatrical release later this year from Studiocanal. The cast is led by Joe Keery (Stranger Things), Georgina Campbell (Barbarian), Sosie Bacon (Smile), and Vanessa Redgrave (Mission: Impossible franchise), along with with Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), and Liam Neeson (Taken).
Campbell directs Cold Storage from a script written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Presence) based on his novel. It follows Teacake (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell), two young employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old US military base, have their wildest night shift ever when a parasitic fungus escapes from the lowest sublevel of the base, where it was sealed by the government decades before. As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise. With time running out, it’s down to Teacake and Naomi, with the help of a grizzled retired bioterror operative (Neeson), to contain the merciless menace and prevent the explosive extinction of Mankind itself.
“We’re happy to continue our relationship with Studiocanal and excited to be handling this thrilling movie from David Koepp, Jonny Campbell and Gavin Polone,” said SGF president Peter Goldwyn and CEO Ben Feingold.
The deal was negotiated by Miles Fineburg from Samuel Goldwyn Films and Chloe Marquet, Head of International Sales, Charlotte Lopez, SVP of International Sales and Sophie Leuthreau, Head of Business & Legal Affairs International Distribution from Studiocanal.
