'Warfare' Co-Stars Will Poulter & Kit Connor to Reunite For Zombie Horror Movie
Will Poulter and Kit Connor are starring in another movie together!
The 32-year-old actor and the 21-year-old Heartstopper star have been cast in the upcoming Rapture, a medieval zombie horror film, according to Deadline.
Also among the cast is Elite star Manu Rios.
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The movie is “set in Medieval England in the year 1348, the story alights on Lansley Abbey, a remote stone monastery in Yorkshire, which houses ten monks bound by a life of strict routine and devotion. Their fragile peace is disrupted by the arrival of a messenger – a man with haunting news from the outside world who rapidly shows symptoms of a mystery illness. A virulent plague is spreading through the land: marked initially by a hemorrhagic fever, it turns its victims into ‘revenants’ — restless, undead beings. As the contagion closes in, Lansley Abbey becomes a battleground: desperate outsiders beg for refuge while the infected threaten to overrun its walls. The monks are torn apart by a moral rift — between those who believe they must care for the sick and those who want to protect the centuries of knowledge safe-guarded by the monastery. As death is fully unleashed, so too is the brothers’ capacity for extraordinary acts of altruism and ruthless betrayal, forcing them to confront the ultimate question: what does it mean to be human?”
Playwright and director Jordan Tannahill will make his feature debut with the project.
“We have all been blown away by the vision Jordan has for Rapture,” HanWay Films, who is producing the movie, CEO Gabrielle Stewart shared in a statement. “It is rare to have such an atmospheric and terrifying zombie horror film that inhabits such an authentic historical world, with complex characters grappling with the biggest moral dilemmas. It is no wonder he has already attracted such great casting in Will, Kit and Manu with more to come, backed by top tier producers.”
Filming is set to take place in Hungary later this year, and sales are said to launch at Cannes.
Will and Kit recently starred together in the ensemble war film Warfare.
Kit is also set to star in and executive produce an upcoming Heartstopper movie.