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Cruise Out, Offers Out on ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’?
While the Tom Cruise news is six months old, Indiewire did some fresh digging on Guillermo del Toro’s H.P. Lovecraft adaptation At The Mountains Of Madness and discovered that scheduling conflicts might prevent him from starring. In fact, they report that James McAvoy (Wanted, X-Men: First Class) was offered the exact same role. Both need to decide soon as shooting is set for this summer on the James Cameron produced 3-D horror. In addition, offers are also allegedly out to Liam Neeson (Unknown, After.Life), Ron Pearlman (Season of the Witch, Hellboy) and Hugh Jackman (Van Helsing, Wolverine), but again these are just offers. The 1931 tale is deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition’s uncanny discoveries-and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization-is a milestone of macabre literature.
Pictured: James McAvoy
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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