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‘Shang-Chi’ Star Simu Liu Joins Hi-Tech Thriller ‘Hello Stranger’
Simu Liu, star of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has joined The Babysitter: Killer Queen and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City actor Robbie Amell, “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series” star Alicia Sanz, Sam Worthington and Jordana Brewster (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) in the thriller Hello Stranger, Deadline reports.
In Hello Stranger, “Faye (Brewster) attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Faye does not feel the same love for SIM Evan as it does for her. SIM Evan tries to win Faye back while at the same time being on the run from a government agent (Worthington) chasing down SIMs who have become “conscious” and could potentially be a threat to humankind.”
April Mullen (Wander) directs from a script by Ryan Christopher Churchill.
Filming is currently underway in Canada.
Producers are Tim Doiron (Wander) and James van der Woerd (Wander) in association with their production company Wango Films, with Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico (“The Last Word”) an executive producer.
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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