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Michael Rooker Heading to Blumhouse’s ‘Fantasy Island’!
Blumhouse and Sony Pictures’ Fantasy Island has booked more guests, including Michael Rooker (SLiTHER, Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2, pictured in “The Walking Dead”, HBO’s “True Detective” Season 3), Charlotte McKinney (pictured below; Flatliners, Baywatch), Parisa Fitz-Henley (“Luke Cage”, “Jessica Jones”), and Austin Stowell (“Catch 22”, “Battle of the Sexes”), reports Deadline.
The forthcoming adaptation of the ABC long-running series from the ’80s is “horror-tinged”, while our sources tell us that the adaptation is similar to the show except that someone is killing guests of the island.
Lucy Hale (Truth or Dare) stars with Michael Pena (below in End of Watch), who’ll play Mr. Roarke, the host of the enigmatic isle and Crazy Rich Asians’ Jimmy O. Yang. Hale plays one of the guests who is anxious to see her fantasy realized. Roarke warns guests that their fantasies may not play out as expected.
Truth or Dare’s Jeff Wadlow is directing from a script written by him and Truth or Dare co-scribes Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs.
It is set to open in theaters February 28, 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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