Release set for sci-fi horror film Cell, the film adaptation of Stephen King's 2006 apocalyptic novel of the same name. The film, for which trailers and posters are already available thanks to Lions Gate and Saban Films, will be released in U.S. theaters starting next July 8, a date that coincides with the video-on-demand date.
To direct Cell is Tod Williams, the director of Paranormal Activity 2 (2010). Stephen King himself instead adapted the screenplay together with Adam Alleca (The last house on the left -remake). The cast boasts the likes of John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson (the two also starred together in 1408).
Plot: Clayton Riddell (John Cusack) is at the Boston airport when he suddenly witnesses the end of the world. At the same instant, everyone with a cell phone to his ear loses his mind. A pulse emitted by the devices destroys the victims' brains, turning them into rabid killers devoid of speech. Panic runs rampant, and civilization now seems almost extinct.
In the cast: Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Stacy Keach, Owen Teague, Joshua Mikel, Griffin Freeman, Rey Hernandez, Wilbur Fitzgerald, E. Roger Mitchell, Catherine Dyer, and Alex ter Avest.
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