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[San Diego Comic-Con ’12] Is ‘Twilight’ A Gateway To Horror? Fans In Line Speak To Bloody…
Evan Dickson (@EvanDickson) reports live from the San Diego Comic-Con: The “Twilight” fanbase is one of the more maligned groups of people out there. So much so that there was no shortage of jokes yesterday when one of them was sadly killed in an accident while waiting in line for Thursday’s Hall H panel. That’s some seriously unearned hate and it’s pretty sad that someone waiting in line for Pacific Rim or something thinks that someone else’s life is worth less than theirs because of a divergence in taste.
As much as I dislike “Twilight” itself, the fact remains that we have a lot in common with fans of that franchise – the fact that we’re fans of something. It’s one thing to playfully chide your friends, but anyone who is passionate about something ultimately deserves to have their fandom respected.
I just caught up with two groups of Twilight fans outside of Hall H. Both have been here for days. And while one group is here strictly for the romance aspect of the series, another group (the very first people in line) says the “Twilight” saga actually opened them up to horror in general. Who knows? Maybe in two more years they’ll be here to see Guillermo Del Toro.
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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