Richard Kelly, director of Donnie Darko, has a new twisted film coming out this year and I couldn’t be more intrigued.

Based on the short story by Richard Matheson, “The Box” stars Cameron Diaz as Norma Lewis and James Marsden as Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child who receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger, played by Frank Langella, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world…someone they don’t know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the crosshairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.

Frank Langella plays a horrendously deformed stranger in this one, and knowing Richard Kelly he probably came up with something especially freaky. He spoke to Ain’t It Cool News, and when asked why the movie couldn’t simply be rated PG he said:

Because Frank Langella is missing half of his face. That, technically, is gore. But when you see it, it’s a disfigurement; it’s not like he has blood and stuff hanging and oozing from his face. It’s disturbing.

They actually have a pretty extensive interview and I highly recommend it.

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