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Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ Finally Sees the Light!
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (that feels so good to say) will see his Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark come to light thanks to Entertainment One (eOne) and CBS Films which just announced that together they will co-finance the André Øvredal (Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe) directed feature film based on Alvin Schwartz’s internationally best-selling book series, Deadline reports.
Inspired by one of the most terrifying children’s book series of all time, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark follows a group of young teens who must solve the mystery surrounding sudden and macabre deaths in their small town.
Principal photography is expected to begin this summer in Toronto, Ontario.
CBS Films will distribute the film in the US via Lionsgate.
del Toro, who is producing, adapted the script with Daniel & Kevin Hageman. Also producing is Sean Daniel, Elizabeth Grave, Jason F. Brown, and J. Miles Dale.
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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