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Adam Wingard is Directing ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’!!
In the wake of Legendary and Warner Bros. tapping Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat) to direct Godzilla: King of the Monsters, they’ve just made an equally inspired choice by hiring Adam Wingard to helm mash-up MonsterVerse film Godzilla vs. Kong!
Wingard got his start with micro-indie films such as Pop Skull and A Horrible Way to Die, as well as heading Bloody Disgusting’s very own V/H/S and even directing a segment in the followup V/H/S/2. He also helmed Lionsgate’s awesome You’re Next and went on to make their Blair Witch sequel. To say we’re excited is an understatement.
I’m really very excited. This is a total playground.
THR broke the news. We don’t have any specific plot details at this time.
A writers room, led by Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbean), was put together to work on the script back in March. Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne (Star Trek Beyond), Lindsey Beer, Cat Vasko, Maze Runner movies writer T.S. Nowlin, Jack Paglen (Transcendence), and “Babylon 5” creator J. Michael Straczynski joined Rossio in the development room.
Godzilla vs. Kong is set to arrive on May 22, 2020.
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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