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TV: AMC To Tell ’99 Stories’
AMC has agreed to develop sci-fi horror series “99 Stories,” says THR.
Feature writer David Seltzer developed and will write the series with James Middleton (“The Sarah Connor Chronicles”) and Steven Banks (“Women in Law”) executive producing.
The show features a pretty cool premise as it is “set in a new 99-story high-rise building in which a group of strangers gets trapped.”
AMC vice president of original series Christina Wayne said: “We want to do original programming that is cinematic and flows seemingly into the films. This seemed like the perfect fit.”
“99 Stories” will be part of AMC’s Monsterfest season, featuring 240 hours of non-stop horror films as well as online video.
Seltzer said of his series: “Each story presents a different kind of challenge for the group. The elevators are in control of destiny, whittling them out by deciding who they deem deserve to go up.”
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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