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TV: Chiller Comes To Their “Sense”, Casts Up “Monkey’s Paw”
Chiller, the cable network dedicated to horror programming, has discovered the Monkey’s Paw, and is exploring the human senses.
THR writes that “Terra Nova” alum Stephen Lang and “High School Musical” vet Corbin Bleu (Nurse 3D, Scary or Die) lead the cast of Chiller’s original movie “The Monkey’s Paw,” adapted by Macon Blair from a short story by W.W. Jacobs. We first broke the news here with a detailed plot synopsis.
“The film centers on Jake Tilton (C.J. Thomason), who acquires a mystical “monkey’s paw” talisman that grants its possessor three wishes and finds his world upside down after his first two wishes result in his co-worker Tony Cobb (Lang) being resurrected from the dead. When Cobb pressures Jake into using hte final wish to reunite Cobb with his son, his intimidation quickly escalates intoo relentless murder — forcing Jake to outwit his psychotic friend and save his remaining loved ones.” Michelle Pierce, Tauvia Dawn, and Charles S. Dutton also star.
“The Monkey’s Paw,” produced by Ross Otterman for TMP Films and directed by Brett Simmons (Husk), will premiere on Chiller in 2013.
Additionally, Chiller has teamed with six filmmakers to make five shorts for its first anthology film about the human sesnses, “Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear,” being eyed for a 2013 launch. YellowBrickRoad‘s Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton will take on Hearing, Emily Hagins (My Sucky Teenage Romance ) with Touch, Eric England (Madison County) with Taste, Nick Everhart (Slash-in-the-Box) with Smell and Miko Hughes with Sight.
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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