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‘It Follows’ Breakout Maika Monroe Joins Neil Jordan’s ‘The Widow’
After the one-two punch of The Guest and It Follows, we knew actress Maika Monroe had one hell of a career ahead of her. Monroe subsequently starred in The 5th Wave and Independence Day: Resurgence, and up next she’s working with Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Byzantium)!
Deadline reports that Maika Monroe has joined the cast of Jordan’s The Widow, which also stars Chloe Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert. The thriller was penned by Ray Wright, who wrote the remake of George Romero’s The Crazies.
Moretz will play France, a young woman who returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems and that she’s downright dangerous.
Monroe is Erica, Frances’ protective best friend who is living large on her father’s dime and helps her college pal acclimate to the city.
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Lawrence Bender, James Flynn and Karen Richards are producing.
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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