Washington: Actor Willem Dafoe is all set to star in another horror film Nightmare Alley after amassing eyeballs in The Lighthouse.
Other than Dafoe, the flick will also star Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett and David Strathairn.
Guillermo del Toro's directorial is an adaptation of William Lindsay's 1946 noir novel, reported The Hollywood Reporter.
'Nightmare Alley' is about a few carnival hustlers and con men. They narrate the story of a mentalist, played by Bradley Cooper, who teams with a psychologist to swindle the rich.
Director Del Toro, who penned the script with Kim Morgan, is planning for an early 2020 shoot in Toronto.
Nightmare Alley is being produced and financed by del Toro and J. Miles Dale with TSG Entertainment. Fox Searchlight will distribute the film worldwide.
While Fox was already the home of a Nightmare Alley movie in 1947, del Toro’s adaptation will be based predominantly on the William Lindsay Gresham novel of the same name.
The 1947 movie starred Tyrone Power as an ambitious young con-man who teams up with a female psychiatrist who is even more corrupt than he is. At first, they enjoy success fleecing people with their mentalist act, but then she turns the tables on him, out-manipulating the manipulator.
The four-time Oscar nominee actor Willem Dafoe has Edward Norton's 'Motherless Brooklyn' releasing next month.
'The Lighthouse' will hit select theatres on Friday.