The horror film Old Man is the product of a collaborative effort by a wide variety of talented individuals. AMC’s RLJE Films has picked up this new horror film starring Don’t Breathe’s Stephen Lang, and it will debut in October, just in time for Halloween. Horror lovers have a lot to look forward to in 2022, from Halloween Ends (starring Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode) to Tim Burton’s return to his classic aesthetics on Netflix’s new series Wednesday. Lang, who played the mistaken blind soldier in 2016’s Don’t Breathe, is being brought back by RLJE Films. In Old Guy, Lucky McKee’s (May) return to the director’s chair, Lang will play the eponymous “old man.”
According to the synopsis, the film follows a hiker who goes off the trail. The lost hiker eventually finds himself on the property of a strange elderly guy. After the two strikes up a discussion, the guy lets the hiker in on a horrifying truth, plunging him into a nightmare.
Mark Ward, Chief Acquisitions Officer of RLJE Films, stated: “We can’t wait to collaborate with Lucky McKee, Stephen Lang, and the rest of the film’s creative team on another exciting new project. Genre cinema fans have been delighted by this film’s creative crew time and time again, and Old Man is no exception.”
Actor Lang often takes on nasty roles. Although he has been acting since the early 1980s and has been in a variety of films and TV episodes, Stephen Lang is currently most recognised for his role as the military antagonist Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron’s Avatar. Some of his other roles include Norman Nordstrom in both Don’t Breathe films, Freddy Lounds in Manhunter, and Ike Clanton, a member of the Cowboys, in Tombstone, starring with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer. Liana Wright-Mark (Ocean’s 8) as Genie, Patch Darragh (Succession) as Bible Salesman, and Marc Senter (Starry Eyes), whose character as the hiker has not been revealed, will feature with Lang.
Writer/director McKee is known for genre films like May (2002), starring Angela Bettis as a socially shy girl who stitches together her own buddy, as well as The Woman (2005), which reunited McKee and Bettis, and the black comedy All Cheerleaders Die (2007). It is produced by Aaron B. Koontz, Cameron Burns, Ashleigh Snead, and Senter of Paper Street Pictures. RLJE Films has produced a variety of genre films, such as All Cheerleaders Die by Robert McKee, The Tall Man by Joe Swanberg, Wolf Creek 2 by Peter Berg, and Satanic Panic by Fangoria, based on a script by My Best Friend’s Exorcism author Grady Hendrix.
Across October 14 of this year, Old Man will debut in cinemas, on digital platforms, and on demand.