Magnolia Pictures has premiered another short teaser trailer for “The Carpenter’s Son,” a dark genre feature described as a ‘young Jesus horror’ film and starring Nicolas Cage, Noah Jupe and FKA twigs.
The project is inspired by the apocryphal “Infancy Gospel of Thomas,” a 2nd-century AD text recounting the childhood of Jesus.
The film tells the dark story of a family hiding out in Roman Egypt. Known only as ‘The Boy’ (Jupe), the son is driven to doubt by another mysterious child and rebels against his guardian, The Carpenter (Cage), revealing inherent powers and a fate beyond his comprehension.
As he exercises his own power, The Boy and his family become the target of horrors both natural and divine. FKA twigs plays ‘Mother’.
Lotfy Nathan penned and directs the project, which is dubbed a “genre-bending spectacle that defies expectations at every turn”.
Cage, Julie Viez, Alex Hughes and Riccardo Maddalosso produce the film which launches this Fall.
