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‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’: Victoria Justice Leads Remake Cast
Dammit, Janet!
Victoria Justice, pictured below, and Ryan McCartan have joined Fox’s “Rocky Horror Picture Show” television remake and will play the two young leads, Janet and Brad, respectively, TheWrap reports.
“Penny Dreadful” star Reeve Carney, who played Peter Parker in Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” has also joined the cast along with Staz Nair. Carney will play Riff Raff, who was portrayed by creator Richard O’Brien in the original.
The newcomers will star opposite Laverne Cox, who was the first cast member announced. Cox has been cast in the role of Frank-N-Furter, the main antagonist of the story, played by Tim Curry in the original 1975 film.
Justice and McCartan’s roles were originally played by Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick.
The 2-hour remake, which will be filmed in advance, not live, will be produced by Kenny Ortega — who will be directing and choreographing the movie — as well as former president of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting Company Gail Berman and Lou Adler, who produced the original movie.
“Rocky Horror Picture Show” is slated to premiere on Fox in fall, 2016.
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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