"Nightmare Alley" - Guillermo del Toro for the first time with a film without supernatural elements
The long-awaited neo-noir psychological thriller "Nightmare Alley" is an adaptation of the 1941 novel of the same name by William Lindsey Gresham.
After the great success and won the Oscar for best film with The Shape Of Water in 2018, the director Guillermo del Toro returns with a new feature film, the long-awaited neo-noir psychological thriller "Nightmare Alley".
The score for the music of Nightmare Alley leaves in the hands of Nathan Johnson the composer of the music of Knives Out), after Del Toro's previous collaborator, Alexandre Desplat (The Shape Of Water), abandoned the project due to disagreements in the schedule.
The prestigious cast includes striking names like Tony Colette, Willem Defoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, David Streitern, as well as Mary Steinburg and Tim Blake Nelson, among others.
Scams and spells
What topics does the story of Nightmare Alley? The official synopsis says:
When the charismatic but unhappy Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) approaches the clairvoyant Zina (Tony Colette) and her husband, former magician Pete (David Strathern) at the traveling carnival, he creates his golden ticket to success using his newfound knowledge, to deceive the wealthy elite of New York society from the 1940s.
Together with the virtuoso Molly (Rooney Mara), who stands by his side loyally, Stanton prepares a plan to deceive the dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins) with the help of the mysterious psychiatrist Lilith Ritter (Cate Blanchett), who may be his most formidable opponent ever.
The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name
In an interview with Collider, Del Toro noted that the film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by William Lindsey Gresham from 1941, not the 1947 film, while the authors of the screenplay Del Toro и Kim Morgan.
- The book was given to me by Ron Perlman in 1992 before I saw Tyrone Power, and I liked it. The adaptation we made with Kim Morgan is not an adaptation of the whole book, it is impossible. It is a saga. - says del Toro, noting that certain parts of the book are far darker than the film where the supernatural elements will not be included.
For the first time in Guillermo Del Toro's directing career, he decides to give up the supernatural element. With this film, the director enters the genre he has always wanted to deal with, and that is noir.
Nightmare Alley produced by TSG Entertainment и Double Dare You Productions, and the premiere is scheduled for December 17 this year.
