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Sony Pictures Animation’s ‘Hungry Ghosts’ to Tell Culinary-Inspired Ghost Stories from Anthony Bourdain
Sony Pictures Animation unveiled an expanded slate Wednesday at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in Annecy, France, reports Deadline.
Coming off the success of its Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the studio revealed three projects in development – one being the horror series Hungry Ghosts, based on the Dark Horse Graphic Novel by the late Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose.
The site explains that “Hungry Ghosts” will be an anthology of frightening, hilarious, twisted, and culinary-inspired ghost stories.
Each episode will range in tone and will look completely different from the last, taking advantage of various forms of animation to best fit each story.
Here are some images from the comic, which goes full-on horror. Bourdain had explained that the comics were inspired by the violence he had seen in kitchens through his career.
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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