There aren’t many writers who you’d give top billing to over the cast, director, or intellectual property. But most writers aren’t David Koepp. Koepp may not be a household name, but his films are. He’s written the scripts for Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, the last two Indiana Jones movies, Death Becomes Her, Panic Room, and more. He also directs (Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Stir of Echoes) and is a novelist too. He’s a pretty prolific guy and the primary author behind a brand new, gross-out sci-fi comedy called Cold Storage.
The book was released in 2019, but Koepp has now adapted it for the screen and attracted a few major stars for the ride. Joe Keery of Stranger Things and Georgina Campbell of Barbarian star, but Liam Neeson plays a major role, as do Vanessa Redgrave, Smile’s Sosie Bacon, and others. Best to just watch this thing because it’s truly a weird amalgamation of those talents, genres, and more.
“Teacake (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell), two young employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old U.S. military base, have their wildest night shift ever when a parasitic fungus escapes from the lowest sublevel of the base, where it was sealed by the government decades before,” the film’s official description reads. “As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants— human and otherwise. With time running out, it’s down to Teacake and Naomi, with the help of a grizzled retired bioterror operative (Neeson), to contain the merciless menace and prevent the explosive extinction of Mankind itself.”
That sounds silly as hell, and the trailer certainly plays that up. You almost get the sense, since this is a first teaser, that there are still a lot of effects that have to be finished and that as much blood splatter as there is in this trailer, there will be much, much more to be seen in the film.
Whether or not Cold Storage will be worthy of the names of those who helped create it, we don’t know. But it is definitely now on our radar. Directed by Jonny Campbell, with a script by Koepp adapted from his own novel, it’ll be out in 2026.
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