{"id":531401,"date":"2026-04-15T02:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531401\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:31:10","slug":"new-longlegs-movie-in-the-works-from-nicolas-cage-osgood-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531401\/","title":{"rendered":"New Longlegs Movie in the Works from Nicolas Cage, Osgood Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOsgood Perkins<\/a> is working on a new Longlegs<\/a> feature, a follow-up to the filmmaker\u2019s mystery horror thriller that became highest-grossing independent film of the past decade.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd in a twist out of the Longlegs playbook, rather than original distributor Neon being involved, this one has Skydance-owned Paramount Pictures as the project\u2019s new home.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount has picked up the rights to the new mystery Longlegs project, which Perkins has written and will direct as well as produce. Nicolas Cage<\/a> is returning as star and producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso producing are Brian Kavanaugh Jones of Range Media;\u00a0Chris Ferguson, Perkins\u2019 partner at their company Phobos;\u00a0and Dave Caplan\u00a0of\u00a0C2, which financed the initial movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount and Perkins are keeping details in the basement but sources stress that this new Longlegs is not a sequel but something \u201cset in the Longlegs universe.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLonglegs was an out-of-nowhere hit when released by Neon in 2024, launching Perkins as a name horror filmmaker and establishing the star bona fides of Maika Monroe<\/a>. The actress starred as an FBI agent with an aptitude for clairvoyance, who investigates a series of murder-suicides in Oregon that are connected to serial killer nicknamed Longlegs. Cage played Longlegs in a gonzo performance.<\/p>\n

\n\tLonglegs earned $128 million worldwide on a budget of less than $10 million, becoming Neon\u2019s highest-grossing domestic outing. The movie swirled several potent ingredients in its cauldron, among them the occult, mind manipulation, Satanic worship, creepy dolls and a crime procedural, making the story\u2019s world fertile for more exploration.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tNicolas Cage in Longlegs.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeon\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tSources say that Neon stepped aside when the new project\u2019s scope and budget exceeded that of the company\u2019s normal parameters.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew Paramount\u2019s studio leadership, under Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg, has been putting a strong focus horror on its slate building. It has two on-the-lot production entities that focus on horror, a label run by J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules (Barbarian), and Walter Hamada\u2019s 18Hz productions, with the latter behind the upcoming Passenger set for a May 22 release. There is also a first-look deal with Parker Finn, the filmmaker behind the Smile movies. And it is also relaunching the Paranormal Activity\u00a0franchise with horror mavens James Wan and Jason Blum producing, all the while basking in the glow of the record-breaking success of\u00a0Scream 7, which scared up $211.9 million when it was released earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tPerkins went to direct horror movies The Monkey and Keeper and has wrapped production on his latest scary movie, The Young People, which stars Nicole Kidman,\u00a0Lola Tung and Nico Parker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCage\u2019s next big outing is starring in Amazon Prime Video\u2019s Spider-Man series Spider-Noir, which debuts in May. Later this year, he portrays football great John Madden in David O. Russell\u2019s Madden.<\/p>\n

\n\tPerkins is repped by CAA, Untitled and Lichter Grossman, while Cage is repped by WME, Stride Management and Goodman Genow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Osgood Perkins is working on a new Longlegs feature, a follow-up to the filmmaker\u2019s mystery horror thriller that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,98629,42264,2839,38007,9078,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-531401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-longlegs","10":"tag-maika-monroe","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-nicolas-cage","13":"tag-osgood-perkins","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}