Almost eleven months have gone by since we first heard about the sci-fi virus thriller Cold Storage, and now filming is officially underway, with production set to take place in Italy and Morocco. Now that cameras are rolling, Deadline reports that Sosie Bacon (Smile) has signed on to join the previously announced Liam Neeson (Taken), Joe Keery (Stranger Things), and Georgina Campbell (Barbarian) in the cast. With Bacon, Keery, and Campbell in there, this movie has a lot of modern genre cred. Deadline adds that Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) is also in final talks to take a role in the film.
Doctor Who and Westworld director Jonny Campbell is directing Cold Storage from a screenplay by David Koepp. Koepp has been one of the biggest screenwriters in Hollywood for about thirty years at this point, having worked on such films as Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Panic Room, Spider-Man, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and The Mummy. Koepp wrote the script for Cold Storage based on his 2019 novel of the same name, which you can pick up at THIS LINK. The film will tell the following story: Several decades ago, a highly infectious, constantly mutating micro-organism — capable of extinction-level destruction — was contained in a military facility. In the present day, the military has sealed the facility’s lowest sublevel selling the remaining space to a self-storage company. As temperatures rise underground, the micro-organism finds a way to escape — and if left to spread, it will soon uncontrollably multiply around the world. The fate of humanity now rests on a retired bioterror operative and two unlikely heroes employed in the facility, who are caught in a race against time to destroy the organism and save mankind.
Gavin Polone is producing Cold Storage, with Studiocanal’s Shana Eddy Grouf, Ron Halpern, and Aaron Ensweiler overseeing. Koepp has previously said that Cold Storage will have “everything I’d want to see in a movie; it’s scary, funny, exhilarating, surprising, and riotously entertaining. Gavin, Jonny and I have huge ambitions for this, and are so excited to get cracking with our partners at Studiocanal.“
How does Cold Storage sound to you? What do you think of Sosie Bacon and Lesley Manville joining Liam Neeson, Joe Keery, and Georgina Campbell in the cast? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below. The project sounds interesting enough to me, so I look forward to seeing how it’s going to turn out.