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The Rock’s ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ Remake Still Happening
Although it’s still not clear if the new Halloween is a reboot/remake or a sequel, let us not forget that another John Carpenter movie is in the pipeline for a remake: the 1986 adventure/horror Big Trouble in Little China. Announced last year, the film will be produced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (who will also star) and is being written by Ashely Miller and Zack Stentz. However, since last summer, when Johnson stated that he wanted Carpenter’s involvement in some form, we haven’t heard anything else.
However, in a recent interview with Fandango, Johnson made it clear that the movie is still on his plate. “That’s happening, man! That’s happening, that’s happening. And again, that’s one of those things where you gotta take really good care of it,” he explained.
So, while nothing concrete has come forth aside from The Rock’s word, it still seems that this is a guarantee at some point down the line.
I’m not the biggest fan of everything Johnson has done but I will fully admit that he’s highly entertaining, so this is absolutely something I’m going to keep my eye on.
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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