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‘Extinction – The G.M.O. Chronicles’ Trailer Looks Familiar
The opening voice-over for the Extinction trailer implores you to “imagine a virus killing everyone but you”. Shouldn’t be too hard. I think this is more or less the conceit behind every movie where zombies take over the world. Sure, it’s not always a “virus”, but the concept of a violent and isolating pandemic is pretty much central to most of these movies.
This is all fine, I suppose. Do I wish people would cool it with the zombie movies? Yes. I would prefer to have only 36 or so of those a year. But still, in the end, good movies are good movies and bad movies are bad movies, regardless of genre. For example – I like good zombie movies and I hate bad zombie movies. So far… this does not look like a good zombie movie. Though I will say that some of the designs look cool, especially given the nature of the film’s budget.
But it does exist. So here’s the trailer for Extinction. Directed by Niki Drozdowski and starring Daniel Buder as German Will Smith.
Hit the jump to check it out.
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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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