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Quentin Tarantino Wrote and Will Direct a Manson Family Movie
Many movies about Charles Manson and the horrific murders committed by his “family” have been made over the years. But we’re thinking this is going to be the definitive one.
THR reports tonight that Quentin Tarantino has written a script for a movie based on the infamous Manson family murders, and he’s set to direct the untitled project. Frequent Tarantino producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein are attached.
The site notes that Tarantino is currently finishing up the script, and that Jennifer Lawrence and Brad Pitt have already been approached. Neither actor, however, is involved in any official capacity at this time.
“Script details are fuzzy but one of the story’s centers is on Sharon Tate, the actress and wife of director Roman Polanski who was murdered by Manson and his followers in 1969.”
The project is soon being shopped to studios to co-finance and co-distribute.
The shoot could begin as early as Summer 2018.
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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