Three years have gone by since we first heard about the comedic sci-fi virus thriller Cold Storage, which went into production two years ago. Earlier this year, we learned that Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the North American distribution rights and are planning to give the film a nationwide theatrical release… but that’s not expected to happen until sometime in 2026. While we wait for a specific release date to be announced, a teaser trailer dropped online a few months ago, and now a full trailer has been unveiled. You can check it out in the embed above.
Doctor Who and Westworld director Jonny Campbell took the helm of Cold Storage, working from a screenplay by David Koepp. Koepp has been one of the biggest screenwriters in Hollywood for about thirty years at this point, having worked on such films as Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Panic Room, Spider-Man, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Mummy, and Jurassic World Rebirth. Koepp wrote the script for Cold Storage based on his 2019 novel of the same name, which you can pick up at THIS LINK. The film tells the following story: Several decades ago, a highly infectious, constantly mutating micro-organism — capable of extinction-level destruction — was contained in a military facility. In the present day, the military has sealed the facility’s lowest sublevel selling the remaining space to a self-storage company. As temperatures rise underground, the micro-organism finds a way to escape — and if left to spread, it will soon uncontrollably multiply around the world. The fate of humanity now rests on a retired bioterror operative and two unlikely heroes employed in the facility, who are caught in a race against time to destroy the organism and save mankind.
The cast includes Liam Neeson (Taken), Joe Keery (Stranger Things), Georgina Campbell (Barbarian), Sosie Bacon (Smile), and Vanessa Redgrave (Mission: Impossible). Another version of the synopsis tells us that the story follows Teacake (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell), two young employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old US military base, who 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. 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.
Gavin Polone is producing Cold Storage, with Studiocanal’s Shana Eddy Grouf, Ron Halpern, and Aaron Ensweiler overseeing. Koepp has previously said that Cold Storage will have “everything I’d want to see in a movie; it’s scary, funny, exhilarating, surprising, and riotously entertaining. Gavin, Jonny and I have huge ambitions for this.“ The film has been given an R rating for violent content, gore, and language.
Cold Storage looks like a lot of fun to me. What did you think of the trailer? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
