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See the Forest Sets From ‘Saw V’ Director’s ‘Endangered’
A blog over at Tink reveals some of the cool sets for David Hackl’s Endangered (formerly Red Machine).
In the film, Billy Bob Thornton, James Marsden and Scott Glenn set out on a perilous adventure, hunting for a rogue Grizzly bear (aka the “Red Machine”) that is also hunting them.
“The mountains of coastal British Columbia stand in for Alaska as they trek through forests and difficult terrain to a final showdown,” explains the site.
“Tink sourced many forested areas that provided a strong graphic image for the screen as well as a visual arc to the progress of their trek. From the outset, there was a possibility of the film being converted to 3D, so he was sure to provide a few interesting fields of depth in dressing and existing elements for each set and location.
The main set in the film was the old Trapper’s cabin, which appears in the dramatic opening and is revisited again later in the story. Tink designed it to look authentic to being an actual trapper’s cabin that has been nestled in the giant fir trees for 70+ years.
It’s a fully realized structure which could be shot from any angle inside or out and featured wild wall sections along each side as well as easily removable windows. The Construction and Paint departments brought the “age” and “history” of this cabin to life, which is evident in the following photos. The Set Dec team then did their magic, with the overall effect being completely authentic – even to unaware passersby as they happened upon the set.”
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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