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‘Pacific Rim 2’ Officially Announced!
Despite a soft box office take in the US, we are officially getting a sequel to the super fun Pacific Rim (you can thank the film’s worldwide take of $400 Million and probably some decent ancillaries for this good news). The last we heard Pacific Rim 2 was just a glimmer in Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham’s eye – they were informally developing the sequel back in October – but now things are official.
The Legendary production is switching studios from Warner Bros. to Universal, per Variety. Zak Penn (The Avengers) taking over scripting duties from Beacham. Del Toro will of course direct. This isn’t the first Del Toro sequel to switch homes, Hellboy 2 moved from Sony to Universal back in 2008.
Universal has even announced a release date! April 7th 2017! Seems legit!
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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