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Dollmaker Creates ‘Annabelle 2’ to Haunt Orphans
Leading up to the release of Lights Out, we spoke to director David F. Sandberg who is currently hard at work at his sophomore effort, Annabelle 2, the followup to the Conjuring spinoff that he hopes will be the “Godfather II of creepy doll movies.”
We also broke the news that the film’s protagonist is going to be a nun who is worried that her orphans are becoming prey to an evil entity.
The 5th Wave‘s Talitha Bateman has been cast at the film’s lead orphan, says Deadline, who also revealed the full extent of the film’s plot:
Written by Gary Dauberman, the story follows a dollmaker and his wife who, 20 years after the death of their little girl, welcome a nun and several orphan girls into their home. Unfortunately, the new guests soon become the targets of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle. Bateman is playing one of the orphans taken into the dollmaker’s home.
Miranda Otto (The Two Towers, Return of the King, What Lies Beneath) was recently cast as the “disfigured” wife of the dollmaker.
Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2 director James Wan is producing with Peter Safran.
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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