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Waititi and Clement Still Want to Make ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Spinoff Sequel ‘We’re Wolves’
There’s a lot going on in the world of What We Do in the Shadows right now, with a TV series headed to FX in March and another series, “Wellington Paranormal,” set to embark on its second season over in New Zealand this year. What about a feature film sequel, you ask?
Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement have been toying with the idea of making a sequel for a few years, which would center on the werewolves (not swearwolves) from the first film. Last we heard, the clever title for the project was We’re Wolves, and Waititi just noted during the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour that he still wants to make it.
“We always had plans to make another movie, but other things, Thor, got in the way of our plans to make a werewolf movie and we keep talking about that,” Waititi said.
Waititi is of course referring to 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok, which he directed.
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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