‘Color Out of Space’ Producers SpectreVision Cut Richard Stanley – Deadline

Director Richard Stanley (Color Out of Space) has been abruptly dumped by SpectreVision after allegations of abuse by an ex-partner surfaced.

“SpectreVision will no longer work with Richard Stanley,” said a tweet on the company’s account. “We are proud of the talented cast and crew behind Color Out of Space. Yet we are horrified by the charges against its director. We will be donating future revenue from the film to charities devoted to stopping domestic violence.”

Scarlett Amaris, who describes herself as Stanley’s “long term life and creative partner,” claimed in a blog post dated March 16 that she filed charges for Domestic Violence, Assault & Battery in October 2014.

Deadline has reached out to SpectreVision for additional comment.

SpectreVision was founded in 2010 by actor Elijah Wood and directors Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller. The production company mostly focuses on horror films.

Color Out of Space is a 2019 American science fiction film directed and cowritten by Stanley. It was based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story, The Colour Ouf of Space, and stars Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Elliot Knight, Madeleine Arthur, Q’orianka Kilcher and Tommy Chong. Stanley planned it as the first of a trilogy of Lovecraft stories.

After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farmstead, Nathan Gardner (Cage) and his family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a technicolor nightmare.

The South African Stanley sold Color Out of Space for low-to-mid seven figures ahead of pic’s TIFF Midnight Madness Saturday night world premiere.

For Stanley, Color Out of Space repped his return to the Midnight Madness lineup after 29 years, his last being the sci-fi thriller Hardware. He cowrote the screenplay with Scarlett Amaris.

Color Out of Space was financed by Ace Pictures and produced by SpectreVision. Producers included Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, Wood and Josh C. Waller, while EPs are Johnny Chang, Peter Wong, Timur Bekbosunov, Emma Lee, Stacy Jorgensen, Elisa Lleras and Michael M. McGuire. XYZ Films is handling foreign sales.