If you’re making a body horror movie right now, bringing a makeup effects artist from The Substance on board your team is probably the best possible decision. That’s precisely what the team behind the upcoming French body horror film Species has done, with Screen Daily reporting that Oscar winner Pierre-Olivier Persin will be handling the film’s makeup effects.
Marion Le Corroller is directing the upcoming Species.
In the film, “a young medical student working at an ER witnesses a new virus spreading among young patients, a mysterious mutation among the new generation that starts affecting her.”
Karin Viard, Mara Taquin, Kim Higelin, Sami Outalbali, Stefan Crepon and Sonia Faidi star.
Marion Le Corroller wrote the script alongside Thomas Pujol.
“We are very excited to start talking about this pulsating body horror project in Cannes. We totally see Marion Le Corroller walking in the footsteps of Coralie Fargeat and Julia Ducournau,” said WTFilms co-founders Gregory Chambet and Dimitri Stephanides.
Species is being distributed in France by Wild Bunch, Screen Daily also notes in today’s exclusive report, while WTFilms will be handling international sales to all other territories.
Karin Viard in ‘The Chef’s Wife’ (2014)
