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‘Laid to Rest’ Director Reopening the ‘Chopping Mall’!
Robert Hall‘s Dry County Entertainment is hanging out at a Chopping Mall, acquiring the remake rights to the ’80s horror title that I literally just watched this past weekend (what are the odds?!)
Hall and producing partner Kevin Bocarde will produce and write. Hall, best known for helming Laid to Rest and it’s sequel, is also coming on to direct, with lensing to begin in spring.
The original Chopping Mall was produced by Roger Corman and his wife Julie. It centered around a group of teenagers who become trapped in a shopping mall with killer robots. Killer robots in a mall, what’s not to like?
Bocarde said the new movie won’t be a straight remake. “It will retain the basic concept of young people trapped in a mall; however, the story will have a darker, supernatural spin,” he explained. Hall noted that he had started in show business at Corman’s studio. “This is an exciting way to pay homage and honor Roger while also expanding the original film’s premise,” he said.
Recent remakes of Corman’s films include the Jason Statham starrer Death Race, last year’s Piranha and the upcoming Piranha 3D.
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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