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F. Gary Gray and ‘John Wick’ Creator Turning Sci-fi Video Game ‘Echo’ into a Feature Film

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Straight Outta Compton and Men In Black: International director F. Gary Gray‘s Fenix Studios has optioned the rights to Echo, Deadline reports today, the third-person sci-fi video game released in 2017 by indie studio Ultra Ultra. Gray is attached to produce (but not direct) the film adaptation, being penned by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad.

Echo follows the character En as she arrives at a vast and mysterious palace hidden in the depths of space.

“The palace creates copies, called Echoes, that study her and use her own actions against her.”

In addition to creating the John Wick franchise, Derek Kolstad has also written all of the films to date, including this year’s John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

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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