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‘Phantasm’ Director Don Coscarelli in Pre-Production on Secret Project
We’d like to welcomePhantasm director Don Coscarelli to Twitter where he’s begun teasing his next directing project – his first feature since the well-received Bubba Hop-Tep from 2002. Over the past two days he has posted 3 important pieces of information: “Writing from an undisclosed location,” while also teasing “Pre-production begins.” On what you ask? Well, maybe his last tweet holds the answer. “Most only ride in a hearse once. Some are luckier,” the writer-director states while providing a link to a Phantasm-themed hearse. Could Coscarelli be working on the long gestured Phantasm 5, or has he begun pre-production on Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires, another widely speculated sequel that’s been in development hell for years now? But maybe, just maybe it’s something else? Your guess is as good as mine at this point. We dropped an e-mail into the director and expect a “no comment” in return.
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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