Watch Stephen King's 'Cell' Transform Smartphone Users Into Mindless Killers
A bunch of zombified cellphone users is pretty standard these days — not exactly the stuff of nightmares. But add a dose of Stephen King to transform the slack-jawed screen junkies into a bloodthirsty mob and you have Cell. (Watch the trailer above).
The horrormeister adapted his 2006 novel for the film, which reteams John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson from another King-based thriller, 1408. Cusack plays Clay Riddell, an artist who is separated from his family when the mysterious “Pulse” is blasted out over the cell network, turning anyone who was using a smartphone into a mindless killer.
Jackson is Tom McCourt, an unlikely hero who helps Clay navigate the “phoners” in a search for his lost son. Along the way, they and their fellow survivors, including Isabelle Fuhrman and Stacy Keach, learn that the masses are under the sway of the hoodie-wearing “Raggedy Man.”
After nearly a decade in development — at one point Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) was planning to direct before giving up the reins to Tod Williams (Paranormal Activity 2) — the film is set to arrive June 10 on Ultra VOD and July 8 in theaters and standard-issue VOD.
Check out the Cell poster:
