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“Bates Motel” Beauty Awakens Evil From ‘Ouija’
Casting hit full force today as Olivia Cooke, one of the stars of A&E’s “Bates Motel,” will star in Ouija, Universal’s horror movie based on the Hasbro board game, says Heat Vision.
Douglas Smith is playing the male lead of the movie, which is being produced by Platinum Dunes, Blumhouse Productions and Hasbro. Daren Kagasoff has joined the movie in a supporting role.
The script by Juliet Snowden and White “centers on a group of friends attempting to make contact with a recently deceased classmate through a Ouija board and begin to experience a dark and terrifying presence.“
Cooke will play a girl who discovers that her dead friend had been messing around with a Ouija board and brings the game home. Smith is the dead girl’s boyfriend, who may know more about her death than he lets on.
Filming begins next week in locations in and around Los Angeles, with Stiles White in the director’s chair.
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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