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‘Goodnight Mommy’ Duo Enter ‘The Fortress’ of Horror
Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, the German filmmaking team behind Goodnight Mommy, have set up their first studio project, writes THR.
Universal is in final negotiations to pick The Fortress, a horror pitch the team will write and direct about a group of refugees hidden aboard a container ship who discover their passage to safety is not what it seems.
Michael De Luca (In the Mouth of Madness), who has a first-look deal with the studio, is attached to produce.
De Luca Productions’ Lucy Kitada will executive produce.
Fiala, a filmmaker, and Franz, a former film journalist and casting director, first teamed up when they co-directed and co-wrote the feature documentary “Kern,” add the site. They made their fiction debut with 2014’s Mommy, which generated much acclaim and was Austria’s entry for best foreign language film.
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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