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Darkstone Entertainment Heads Deep Into ‘The Dark Tower’
Darkstone Entertainment, the production team behind PLAN 9, the remake of Ed Wood’s PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, is prepping a new indie project with director John Johnson. Going into production this Christmas is the first of his series of the adaption of THE DARK TOWER, which i not to be confused with the comic or novel by Stephen King. Read on for more information on the adaptation.
DARK TOWER is based on the original poem by Robert Browning “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” and the English fairytale “Burd Ellen” also known as “Childe Rowland”.
Johnson plans to tell a very dark gothic story of a man and his quest to the mysterious Dark Tower set in modern times. Very much in the genre of horror our hero Roland travels through the world of dreams and nightmares to find his lost love and the Dark Tower.
Although this is a very different interpretation than Stephen King’s adaption, Johnson is a huge fan of the series of books by King and graphic novels based on the series.
“I’ve had an obsession with a dark tower in my dreams since I was five years old. Guess it is time to face it in the best way I know how.” Says Johnson who is now known for his remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space set for production in March ’09.
Watch for more as it comes in.
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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