RLJE Films has acquired the U.S. rights to “Color Out of Space,” a horror and sci-fi film starring Nicolas Cage and based on the 1927 novella “The Colour Out of Space” by H.P. Lovecraft, the company announced Friday.
The film was acquired in a low to mid-seven figure deal ahead of its world premiere in the Midnight Madness section of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where it will screen on Sept. 7 at the Ryerson Theater.
“Color Out of Space” reunites Cage with Elijah Wood’s Spectrevision, the producing team behind his recent indie cult hit “Mandy.” After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farmstead, Nathan Gardner (Cage) and his family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a technicolor nightmare.