A24 will be giving director Ti West’s Pearl, a prequel to his film X (which was released earlier this year, and now you can watch it at THIS LINK), a theatrical release on September 16th… and since I loved X, I’m hyped to check this one out. In anticipation of the film’s quickly approaching release date, a batch of new images from Pearl have shown up on the film’s IMDb page, and you can check them out at the bottom of this article.
X was set in 1979. Written by West and star Mia Goth, Pearl turns the clock back to 1918 to tell the following story:
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide, in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.
Goth, who was buried under old age makeup to play Pearl in X, ditches that makeup to reprise the role in this prequel. She is joined in the cast by David Corenswet (The Politician), Matthew Sunderland (The Nightingale), Tandi Wright (Alibi), and Emma Jenkins-Purro (The Brokenwood Mysteries).
Pearl was produced by A24, Jacob Jaffke, Harrison Kreiss and Kevin Turen, with Goth, Dennis Cummings, Sam Levinson, Ashley Levinson, Karina Manashil, Scott Mescudi, and Peter Phok serving as executive producers.
Are you looking forward to Pearl? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below. If you missed X, that one had the following synopsis:
In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
Here are the new Pearl images from IMDb: