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Amanda Seyfried’s Romantic Interest Cast in Hardwicke’s ‘Riding Hood’
Some exquisite casting news tonight as Joaquin Phoenix/Johnny Depp look-alike Shiloh Fernandez (Deadgirl, Red) has nabbed the male romantic lead in The Girl With the Red Riding Hood, Warner Bros.’ gothic horror re-imagining of the “Little Red Riding Hood” fairy tale. Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown, Twilight) is directing the pic, in which Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body) will play a woman in a medieval village being terrorized by a werewolf. The studio is making sure they’re happy with their choice (and they sure as hell should be) as Fernandez is said to have screen-tested and read seven times before nabbing the role of Peter, an orphaned woodcutter for whom Seyfried falls, much to the displeasure of her family.
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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