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Yup, They’re Making a Sequel to ‘Monsters’
U.K. shingle-distrib Vertigo Films has announced it is making a sequel to last year’s Brit click Monsters, with promo duo Brent Bonacorso and Jesse Atlas set to helm.
Gareth Edwards, who directed the first installment, will serve as exec producer along with “Monsters” actor Scoot McNairy and Vertigo’s Rupert Preston.
The sequel, budgeted under $5 million (the first installment was budgeted under $1 million), will shoot in September in a foreign location, maybe Argentina. Bonacorso, a U.S. docmaker, and Atlas a shorts guru, have been jointly shooting commercials and short films prior to being brought aboard the project.
“We’re going to keep the same quality and intelligence of the first film and make it much more of a straight genre picture,” said Niblo. “ ‘Monsters 2’ will expand the world created in the original movie whilst upping the action ante.” Good.
Niblo describes the tale, set in a walled city, as a “Heart of Darkness” story about two brothers finding each other in a world of monsters. He adds that the variety of aliens will differ in the next installment.
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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