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Quick Bites: Updates on ‘Dracula: Year Zero,’ ‘World War Z’ and ‘Hansel and Gretel’
There’s a bunch of non-news wasting space on various sites, so we thought we’d condense them into this once single post. First, Encore is reporting Universal Pictures has announced production of Alex Proyas’ Dracula: Year Zero, which is to be shot in Australia. Sam Worthington stars in the film that will depict Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war, repositioning him more as a vengeful hero than the monster seen in Bram Stoker’s classic novel. In addition, a supposed Paramount doc is making the rounds that state Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, which follows the poor siblings (now bounty hunters) 15 years after that whole gingerbread house incident, is set to shoot this year. Casting is being discussed. Lastly, the studio loves Matt Carnahan’s World War Z draft, so it looks like Marc Forster could be directing pretty soon. Brad Pitt stars.
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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