Neon snaps up the North American rights to Maika Monroe's next film Brides

Neon is ready to work with Longlegs star Maika Monroe again. The distributor behind some of 2024's most acclaimed horror movies, like the aforementioned serial killer thriller, Immaculate, and Cuckoo, has acquired the North American rights to the upcoming horror film Brides, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Monroe will star in the movie, directed by Chloe Okuno, with whom Monroe previously worked for the film Watcher. In addition to Longlegs and Brides, Neon is co-producing and distributing They Follow, the sequel to the David Robert Mitchell-directed film It Follows that Monroe also starred in.

Pre-production for Brides is already underway, with filming starting in March 2025. Monroe will be plenty busy between this film and They Follow, which is also set to shoot next year.

In honor of the acquisition, Neon shared a photo of the script's title page via the X platform (formerly Twitter) earlier today. Fittingly, the word Brides is depicted in such a way as to mimic being written in blood.

1428 Elm previously reported that Okuno and Monroe were working together again for Brides. Okuno will write the script and the film is inspired by Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, though it will "flip" his "narrative on its head, exploring the struggle between societal repression and carnal desire."

Set in the 1960s, Monroe plays a character named Sally Bishop, who travels to an Italian villa with her husband after suffering a nervous breakdown. There, they soon learn that the villa's owner is a count with a strange interest in Sally. It sounds like the "count" is this story's version of Dracula and intends to make Sally one of his brides.

In addition to They Follow and Brides, Monroe will also star in the upcoming remake of the 1992 thriller The Hand that Rocks the Cradle to be helmed by Huesera: The Bone Woman director Michelle Garza Cervera.

Stay tuned to 1428 Elm for more updates on Brides and all things horror.