Director Antonio Campos has assembled an awesome cast for his "midwestern gothic" film THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME – Tom Holland (the Spider-Man actor, not the CHILD'S PLAY director), Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgard, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Mia Wasikowska, Eliza Scanlen, Harry Melling, and Pokey LaFarge.
On September 16th, we'll have the chance to see this cast in action when THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME reaches Netflix, but in the meantime Entertainment Weekly has released a batch of images online that offer the first look at Holland, Pattinson, Skarsgard, Keough, and Clarke in character. These images can be seen below.
Campos wrote the screenplay with his brother Paulo and doesn't want to give too much away when it comes to the plot, but the film is based on a novel by Donald Ray Pollock, so we're able to get some clues from a description of the book (which you can buy HERE).
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.
Holland plays the Arvin Russell character, while Pattinson is said to be playing a preacher named Preston Teagardin.
Antonio Campos said the novel was
a hard book to adapt also because there was so much that we loved. I’m a big fan of southern gothic and noir and this was a perfect marriage of the two. Sometimes you might be adapting a piece and you think like, Well, there is a seed of a good idea here and I’ll just throw everything away and start from scratch. In this case it was like, we love everything!"
Sounds to me like THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME is a movie I'm going to need to check out as soon as it reaches Netflix.