Guillermo del Toro landed himself another great actor for his new horror movie Crimson Peak! Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain will join Emma Stone, Charlie Hunnam, and the recently cast Benedict Cumberbatch in the haunted house thriller. Chastain previously worked on the Del Toro-produced horror film Mama, which unfortunately kind of sucked. She's a solid actress, but I have to say that Mama wasn't her best work. I'm sure she'll end up being fine in this movie though.
There's still no word on who any of these actors will be playing, but the gothic horror story centers on "a woman who discovers that her husband might not be whom he appears to be."
The director previously described the movie as being a "very set-oriented, classical, but at the same time modern take on the ghost story." He also explained,
It’s the turn of the century. So it’s at the turn of the century and half of the movie takes place in America, and the other half takes place in a crumbling mansion in Cumbria. And basically it’s a ghost story and gothic romance, trying to subvert the rules of the usual gothic romance. It’s very much... the first half is a love story, then that love story turns darker. And it’s at the same time a ghost story. I’m working at this moment with Lucinda Clarkson who is a really great playwright from the UK. She has the proper degree of perversity and intelligence to turn it into something interesting to watch. It’s sort of a very compelling version of the classic gothic romance, where you have the spookiness and the windswept landscape that dooms the characters, you know?
The film starts production in February of 2014.