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Alan Rickman to Hunt Jewish ‘Golem ‘ Creature?!
Harry Potter‘s Alan Rickman, Olivia Cooke (pictured below; “Bates Motel”, The Quiet Ones, The Signal, Ouija) and Douglas Booth (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) are to star in feature film The Limehouse Golem, which has been scripted by Kingsman: The Secret Service/The Woman in Black writer Jane Goldman, says Variety.
In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, magically created entirely from inanimate matter, says Wiki. Usually it’s made out of stone or clay.
Juan Carlos Medina (“Painless”) is set to direct the pic, adapted by Goldman from Peter Ackyroyd’s novel “Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem”, that’s said to be a From Hell or Sherlock Holmes-style mystery.
The Limehouse Golem, set in London in 1880, is a gothic murder mystery also in the style of Se7en and vein of The Woman in Black.
“In the dangerous Limehouse district, a series of murders have shaken the community. So monstrous and ruthless are these crimes the press claim they’re the work of The Golem — a legendary creature from dark times…
Confronted by a murderer of a yet unknown kind and with no genuine leads, the police put the vastly experienced Detective Inspector Kildare on the case, a scapegoat for when the next victim surfaces.”
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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