Robert Englund is coming to Netflix in the upcoming fourth season of “Stranger Things,” and this morning we’ve learned that it won’t be the only Englund project hitting Netflix soon.
Deadline reports that Netflix has acquired world rights to the horror movie CURS>R, paying “high seven figures” for the movie starring Englund and Asa Butterfield (The Wolfman)!
Iola Evans (The 100) and Eddie Marsan (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw) also star in the movie, which was acquired by the streaming service out of the Cannes virtual market.
The film “will follow a broke college dropout who decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game in pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize. But the game curses her, and she’s faced with dangerous choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she realizes she’s no longer playing for the money, but for her life.”
Rounding out the cast is Angela Griffin (“The Hollow,” “White Lines,” “Harlots”), Kate Fleetwood (“Beirut,” “Deliverers,” “Star Wars: Episode VII”), Ryan Gage (“The Hobbit,” “The Musketeers,” “Endeavor),” and Joe Bolland (“The Trial of Christine Keeler”).
Toby Meakins directed CURS>R, written by Simon Allen.