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William Brent Bell Says He’s Developing Ideas for a Prequel to ‘The Devil Inside’ [Exclusive]
It may be not-so-fondly remembered as “the movie that ended with a website link,” but William Brent Bell‘s The Devil Inside was actually a MASSIVE hit at the box office. Released in 2012, the found footage horror movie pulled in $100 million worldwide on a reported production budget of just $1 million, making it hugely profitable despite the “F” CinemaScore.
In the world of Hollywood, profitable movies often spawn sequels, and William Brent Bell (The Boy, Brahms: The Boy II) has revealed in a chat with Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast that he actually is developing ideas for a potential prequel to The Devil Inside.
“I don’t even know if I’m supposed to say this,” the filmmaker began. “We’re developing ideas for a prequel to [The Devil Inside] right now. It’s so cool. It’s so fun to be able to go back to stories like that and then build on something. It’ll be like current day because it’s kind of book-ended with Maria Rossi – today – and it’ll be like Centrino Mental Facility current day.”
He added, “But it’s nice to have…ten years have passed…to kind of play around with what that story can be.”
Maria Rossi was one of the central characters in The Devil Inside, a woman who murdered three people during her exorcism in 1989. Since then, she’s been in the Centrino facility. The 2012 movie centers on Maria’s daughter, who’s making a documentary about exorcisms.
You can listen to the Boo Crew’s full chat with William Brent Bell below.
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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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