Though the news wasn't met with a particularly enthusiastic response, we got word earlier this year that 20th Century Studios was developing a prequel to The Omen with Legion and Briarpatch director Arkasha Stevenson set to make her feature debut on the project, and the movie has now found its lead.
Deadline (via FearHQ) reports that Nell Tiger Free (Servant, Game of Thrones) has signed on to star, but no details on her character have been provided.
Plot details for The First Omen (we are not off to a great start with that title) are also under wraps, but we assume the story will focus on Satan's earlier attempt to spawn an antichrist who is destined to bring about Armageddon. Will Free play the Devil's daughter? Only time will tell.
Stevenson is also penning the script rewrite along with writing partner Tim Smith, while David S. Goyer and Keith Levine will produce for Phantom Four.
The original movie, which has lost none of its power to chill, told the story of an American ambassador (Gregory Peck) and his wife (Lee Remick), who slowly come to the realization that their adopted child, Damien, is the son of Satan ("his mother was a jackal!"). The movie spawned a pair of inferior sequels and a 2006 remake which, while technically well-made, completely failed to recapture the dread of the '70s film
We assume Free landed this role thanks to her stellar work as creepy nanny Leanne Grayson on Apple TV+'s Servant. She also played the unfortunate Myrcella Baratheon in Game of Thrones, and starred in Prime Video's Too Old to Die Young.
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