20th Century Studios has released, online, the first official image of The First Omen (USA - 2024), il prequel del classico dell’horror sull’Anticristo The Omen (aka The Omen) directed by Richard Donner in 1976.
Directed by Arkasha Stevenson (Legion), here in her first feature film, The First Omen will debut in U.S. theaters on April 5, 2024.
Trama: una giovane donna americana viene mandata a Roma per servire la chiesa. Una volta sul posto, la religiosa si scontrerà con il male che la porterà a mettere in discussione la sua stessa fede quando scoprirà che una terrificante cospirazione spera nella nascita dell'Anticristo.
The cast includes Bill Nighy (Underworld), Ralph Ineson (The Witch), Sonia Braga (Kiss of the Spider Woman), Nell Tiger Free (Servant), Andrea Arcangeli (Like Sheep Among Wolves), Anton Alexander, Mia McGovern Zaini and Maria Caballero.
The story of The First Omen is by Ben Jacoby (Bleed) while the screenplay is by Tim Smith, Arkasha Stevenson and Keith Thomas (Firestarter).
Instead, the producers are David S. Goyer (Hellraiser) and Keith Levine (The Night House).
The Omen (1976) stars Gregory Peck as Robert Thorn, the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain whose son is stillborn. Distraught with grief, the man allows himself to be persuaded to replace the dead infant with one born at the same time as his own but without revealing anything to his wife. Five years later, however, Greg begins to think that this child, Damien, is the Antichrist.
The Omen (1976) has had three sequels and a remake: Damien: Omen II (1978), Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) and Omen IV: The Awakening (1991 TV movie).
The remake instead, The Omen, is from 2006.
