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‘HALLOWEEN’: ‘Saw’ Writers Pen “Recalibration” of Franchise!
We’ve been on pins and needles waiting for fresh Michael Myers news since the last story that broke was immediately debunked.
Official word comes in this Monday evening, via THR, who breaks the news that Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, the writers behind various Saw sequels, have been tapped to pen the latest entry of the Halloween horror franchise for Dimension Films!
Sources say it’s not a remake, not a reboot, and not a re-imagining. One source said the project is a “recalibration.”
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Malek Akkad, who has been associated with the franchise since the mid-1990s and producing the movies since the 2007 reboot, is producing with Matt Stein. He is the son of Moustapha Akkad, the man who executive produced the original batch of movies.
Rob Zombie directed the reboot and its 2009 follow-up but no director is attached to the new installment, which has been in development for several years now. Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine) and Todd Farmer were at one point working on a Halloween 3D but since they departed years ago it’s been quieter than a night Haddonfield, Illinois.
With that said, what do they mean by “recalibration”? Is it just another excuse to avoid using the term “remake”?
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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