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New ‘Scream’ Directors Also Tackling Thriller ‘The Ice Beneath Her’ With Daisy Ridley (‘Star Wars’)
Some huge news to kick off the week with Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley reportedly in negotiations to star in psychological crime-thriller The Ice Beneath Her, reports Deadline.
The big news is that the film is to be directed by Ready or Not‘s Radio Silence (pictured below), who recently found themselves attached to helm the next Scream. The filmmakers also directed one of the segments in Bloody Disgusting’s V/H/S and headed our Southbound anthology.
“The story revolves around a detective and psychological profiler who work to solve the case after a young woman is found beheaded in the home of a prominent businessman. The investigation quickly evolves into a race against time.”
With its unreliable narrator, Swedish author Camilla Grebe’s bestselling 2015 novel is similar in tone to Gone Girl and The Girl On the Train, explains the site.
STX (The Boy, Brahms: The Boy II) won a bidding war for world rights and will finance the project, which has Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) producing.
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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