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Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark Remake Scares Up New Casting
After Katie Holmes was cast back in early May for the Del Toro produced remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, all went quiet on the front… until now. Read on beyond the break to see who is in final talks to star and who was just recently cast in the Troy Nixey helmed thriller, which tells the story of a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers that they aren’t alone in the house.
Guy Pearce is in final negotiations and Bailee Madison is set to star with Katie Holmes in “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” Miramax’s supernatural thriller being directed by Guillermo del Toro protege Troy Nixey. Del Toro is producing with Mark Johnson.
“Dark” is based on a 1973 ABC telefilm about a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers they are sharing the house with demonic creatures.
Madison will play the girl, who discovers the creatures and is fascinated by them — until they prove dangerous. Pearce will play the father, an author frustrated by his daughter’s tales of monsters, not believing her even when his girlfriend (Holmes) backs her.
Del Toro and Matthew Robbins wrote the script.
The movie is set to begin production next month in Melbourne, Australia. (Del Toro is in New Zealand working on “The Hobbit.”)
Madison (“Bridge to Terabithia”) is beginning to make waves in the child-acting community. She next appears in Jim Sheridan’s “Brothers” alongside Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman. In the can and due for release next year are “An Invisible Sign of My Own,” with Jessica Alba, and “Betty Anne Waters,” with Hilary Swank. She is repped by Coast to Coast Talent, James/Levy Management and Lev Ginsburg.
Pearce, repped by CAA, Australia’s Shanahan Management and David Weber, has a cameo in Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” and next appears in “The Road,” Dimension’s adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel.
It was announced two weeks ago that Paramount is resurrecting the Scary Movie spoof franchise with a brand new reboot movie, which will likely arrive in theaters next year.
The new movie, a joint venture between Paramount and Miramax that will technically be the sixth installment in the franchise, is expected to go into production this coming Fall.
We don’t yet know who will be writing, directing or starring in the Scary Movie reboot, but two actors in particular have already expressed an interest in joining the franchise.
The first is Melissa Barrera, who can currently be seen in theaters in Radio Silence’s bloody horror movie Abigail. Barrera is of course also the star of Scream and Scream VI, which kind of makes her a perfect candidate to lampoon herself in a Scary Movie reboot.
“I always loved those movies,” Melissa Barrera tells the website Inverse. “When I saw it announced, I was like, ‘Oh, that would be fun.’ That would be so fun to do.”
The actress adds, “They have the iconic cast that did it, so we’ll see what goes on with that. I’m just excited to see a new one.”
In a tweet posted last night, Bailee Madison (The Strangers: Prey at Night, the upcoming “Pretty Little Liars: Summer School”) also threw her hat in the running.
Madison tweets, “Random but scary movie 6 hit me up cause I just feel like we’d have fun okay bye.” Your move, Paramount. And make sure you call Anna Faris and Regina Hall too.
Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, the first Scary Movie was released in 2000, just four years after Wes Craven reinvigorated the horror genre with his meta slasher masterpiece, Scream.
The film parodied horror movies of the time including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Blair Witch Project, and the horror-comedy spoof scared up $278 million at the worldwide box office. The success of that first Scary Movie paved the way for an entire franchise of horror spoofs, five of them in total released between 2000 and 2013.
Bailee Madison in “The Strangers: Prey at Night’
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