Léa Seydoux Joins A24’s Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation ‘The Masque of the Red Death’

Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die, Blue Is the Warmed Color) is joining Mikey Madison (Anora, Scream 2022) in A24’s The Masque of the Red Death. The “wildly revisionist and darkly comedic” take on Edgar Allan Poe‘s 1842 on gothic horror story is written and directed by Charlie Polinger (The Plague). Madison is said to be playing twin sisters in a story that sees…

Caroline C Ryan

January 20, 2026

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Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die, Blue Is the Warmed Color) is joining Mikey Madison (Anora, Scream 2022) in A24’s The Masque of the Red Death.

The “wildly revisionist and darkly comedic” take on Edgar Allan Poe‘s 1842 on gothic horror story is written and directed by Charlie Polinger (The Plague).

Madison is said to be playing twin sisters in a story that sees a mad prince take in the noble class into his castle while a plague devastates the peasantry. The long-lost twin, hidden among the lower class, enter the castle and into a decadent world of orgies, opium, power schemes, revenge, and decapitations.

Seydoux will play a scheming lady-in-waiting who is conniving her way to the top.

Julia Hammer and Erik Feig are producing for Picturestart with James Presson and Lucy McKendrick. Polinger executive produces.

THR first reported on Seydoux’s casting.