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Project #357826472 On Del Toro’s Slate: ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Genre veteran Guillermo del Toro has been using a fairy tale approach to his films – both aesthetically and story-wise – for years, so the latest project he’s attached himself to isn’t really a shock; he’s already made Alice in Wonderland via Pan’s Labyrinth, recreated Peter Pan vicariously through Juan Antonio Bayona in The Orphanage and is producing Gris Grimley’s stop-motion Pinocchio. According to producer Denise Di Novi, it looks like the man-with-a-bazillion-projects is now developing an adaptation of Beauty And The Beast, with Harry Potter‘s Emma Watson set to star, reports Comingsoon. Maybe he can get Ron Perlman to play The Beast one more time?
Beastly, a modern-day take on the tale, hit theatres earlier this year and managed to make back its production budget but wasn’t exactly an explosive hit. Still, with a powerhouse like del Toro behind it who has an affinity for this sort of material, it’s almost guaranteed to be a neat project. That is, if he ever gets around to it.
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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