Harry Potter‘s Alan Rickman, Olivia Cooke (pictured below; “Bates Motel”, The Quiet Ones, The Signal, Ouija) and Douglas Booth (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) are to star in feature film The Limehouse Golem, which has been scripted by Kingsman: The Secret Service/The Woman in Black writer Jane Goldman, says Variety.
In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, magically created entirely from inanimate matter, says Wiki. Usually it’s made out of stone or clay.
Juan Carlos Medina (“Painless”) is set to direct the pic, adapted by Goldman from Peter Ackyroyd’s novel “Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem”, that’s said to be a From Hell or Sherlock Holmes-style mystery.
The Limehouse Golem, set in London in 1880, is a gothic murder mystery also in the style of Se7en and vein of The Woman in Black.
“In the dangerous Limehouse district, a series of murders have shaken the community. So monstrous and ruthless are these crimes the press claim they’re the work of The Golem — a legendary creature from dark times…
Confronted by a murderer of a yet unknown kind and with no genuine leads, the police put the vastly experienced Detective Inspector Kildare on the case, a scapegoat for when the next victim surfaces.”
