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Horror Lurks Beneath the Surface of ‘His House’
New Regency and BBC Films have taken on rights to red-hot feature script His House, Deadline reports.
UK writer-director Remi Weekes’ genre title hit the headlines last summer when it became caught in an ownership lawsuit launched by The Weinstein Company. Senior management at The Weinstein Company have now confirmed to me that the lawsuit will not be going ahead and the project is free to take off with its new backers.
“It follows a young refugee couple who make a harrowing escape from war-torn Sudan but then struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface.“
Wunmi Mosaku (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) and Sope Dirisu (The Huntsman: Winter’s War) are set to star in the film, which will have a major budget for a first-time UK filmmaker of close to $10m.
The shoot is being lined up for this spring in the UK.
Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee (It, The Ring) is producing alongside Martin Gentles and Edward King of Starchild Pictures (Howl), and New Regency’s Arnon Milchan (The Revenant). Stuart Manashil and Steven Schneider will serve as executive producers. New Regency will finance and Fox will have world-wide distribution rights, per their deal.
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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