Step aside, Demogorgons, Steve Harrington has a new dangerous threat to fight. Stranger Things star Joe Keery steps into the shoes of a self-storage employee named Teacake in the upcoming thriller film Cold Storage, to be released later this year.
Teacake and his co-worker Naomi (played by Barbarian star Georgina Campbell) are tasked with monitoring the units within the storage center, which was built in an old US military base. But as these things often go, something escapes and causes catastrophe. In this case, the escapee is a parasitic fungus that rapidly mutates along with the rising temperature within the facility, unleashing "brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors."
The low-level employees are left to fend for themselves against the anomaly alongside a grizzled bioterror operative played by Liam Neeson (Taken). If the trio doesn't prevent the virus from escaping, it could spell the end of humankind.
The Hollywood Reporter shared that Samuel Goldwyn Films purchased the film's North American rights from StudioCanal and is planning a wide release for the film sometime in 2025.
Cold Storage was directed by Jonny Campbell (Dracula) and written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park), based on Koepp's debut novel. Koepp also produced the movie with Panic Room producer Gavin Polone.
It sounds like the storyline was heavily inspired by The Thing, but it should make for a tense and claustrophobic thriller. Apart from the cast named above, Cold Storage also stars Sosie Bacon (Smile), Lesley Manville (Grotesquerie), and Vanessa Redgrave (Mission: Impossible).
As for Keery, the actor just released his third studio album, The Crux, and he's wrapped filming for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, which should also be released sometime this year. After her breakout role in the smash hit Barbarian from director Zach Cregger, Campbell went on to star in The Watchers alongside Dakota Fanning and will next be in the horror-thriller Psycho Killer with Logan Lerman.