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Ratner’s ‘Mother’s Day’ Remake Won’t Buzz?
We broke the news in an interview back in February with Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman that Brett Ratner had been trying to gain the remake rights to MOTHER’S DAY. This weekend we learned that Ratner is already out to directors to bring this chaotic tale back to the big screen. One rumored name in talks was SAW II-IV director Darren Lynn Bousman, who jokes with us that he is in no way attached, “I haven’t read a script or a treatment [for MOTHER’S DAY]; add it to the other 25 supposed remakes I am hypothetically attached to – Children of the Corn, Hellrasier, Scanners, and now Mother’s Day – I am gunning for Casablanca, though I feel I am fighting an uphill battle on that one…” I think that’s a pretty clear answer, no?
Synopsis From IMDB (why is it so hard to find a freaking poster and synopsis?) -“Three women who were friends in college get together for a ten year reunion and decide to go camping in the woods. Unknown to them, two boys and their mother who happen to live in those very same woods, like to abduct people, who happen to wander in their neck of the woods, and torture them, just like they see on TV!”
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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