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Robert Rodriguez in Search of ‘Blood’ Relatives in Florida Woods
Bold Films and Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse, Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty) are ramping up development of the Florida-set horror movie project Blood, Variety reports.
Bold Films is also financing. No directors or actors are yet attached, with no indication that Rodriguez will get behind the camera.
“The story centers on a recently engaged woman who becomes determined to find her birth family before she marries. But when she meets her unusual kin in the deep woods of Florida, she begins reliving horrifying suppressed memories that lead her to believe her newfound relatives may be hiding some dark secrets.”
The producers have brought on Jeff Buhler, whose credits include the recently wrapped Jacob’s Ladder remake, a rewrite of Paramount’s Pet Sematary and The Midnight Meat Train, to write the script. Misha Green (Sunflower) wrote the previous drafts.
Michel Litvak and Gary Michael Walters will produce for Bold Films. Lisa Zambri will executive produce.
Bold Films’ credits include Whiplash, Nightcrawler, Drive, The Neon Demon and the upcoming Boston Marathon bombing film Stronger, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
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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