Will Ligeia See Screens in 2010?

Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia recently played at the 18th Annual International Film Festival and will likely make further festivals until releasing in 2010 (a prediction). Distribution is being handled through Darclight Films and Ligeia stars Wes Bentley (Ghost Rider), Eric Roberts (The Steam Experiment), Michael Madsen (The Killing Jar) and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. The film involves trapping the souls of the living in vessels to achieve immortality. A dark and twisted tale, the trailer for Ligeia can be found below with a synopsis until an official release date is found.

A synopsis for Ligeia here:

"Based on the classic Edgar Allan Poe short story Ligeia, the film is about a young, successful writer and scholar, Jonathan Merrick, who happens to fall under the spell of the bewitchingly, irresistibly beautiful Ligeia. Ligeia knows that she will die of a rare cancer and has decided to fight death by using her mystic powers to drive the soul from the human body, contain it and use its energy to transfer her own spirit so that she can become immortal. Ligeia pulls Jonathan into her dark, goth world and takes him away from his fiancee Rowena. Obsession takes over love and even after Ligeia's dramatic death, she continues to haunt Jonathan driving him to the brink of insanity.

Release Date: 2010.

Director: Michael Staininger.

Writers: John Shirley, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Producer: Jeff Most (The Crow).

Cast: Wes Bentley (American Beauty), Kaitlin Doubleday, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Mackenzie Rosman, Sofya Skya, Michael Madsen, Eric Roberts

A trailer for Ligeia:



The official homepage for Ligeia here:

Ligeia Homepage

Sources:

Ligeia at Darclight

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