After a freakishly bloody turn in Weapons, actor B. D. Wong is staying in the horror genre

Wong, who played a high school principal cursed with a murderous and unstoppable bloodlust in Weapons, was cast in A24’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Masque of the Red Death.

Frank Rogowski (Passages) also joins the cast, which includes Mikey Madison, who won an Oscar for Anora, and Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die).

What A24 calls its “wildly revisionist and darkly comedic” take on Poe‘s 1842 gothic short story will be written and directed by Charlie Polinger. The story is about twin sisters (played by Madison) who end up in a castle with a mad prince and other nobility while a plague rages outside the palace walls.

One of the twins, hidden among the lower classes, enters the castle and its decadent world of “orgies, opium, power schemes, revenge and decapitations,” sources say. Seydoux is said to play a scheming lady-in-waiting with aspirations to power.

The roles Wong and Rogowski are playing have not been revealed. Julia Hammer and Erik Feig are producing for Picturestart and Polinger will serve as executive producer. Masque will be shot in Hungary with production beginning this month.

Director Roger Corman adapted The Masque of the Red Death for American International Pictures in 1964. The film, written by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell, starred Vincent Price. Elements from another Poe tale, Hop-Frog, were woven into The Masque of the Red Death to develop it into a feature-length film. It has been adapted for screen a few other times, but Corman’s is the most well-known version thus far.