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‘Shrine’: Cary Elwes and Katie Aselton Join Sam Raimi’s Latest Horror Production
Sony’s Screen Gems has rounded out the cast for Shrine, the latest horror film from Ghost House producer Sam Raimi.
Joining previously announced star Jeffrey Dean Morgan (“The Walking Dead”) will be Katie Aselton (pictured in Black Rock, “The League”), replacing Jordana Brewster, who was attached to co-lead the film but had to withdraw from the project due to timing conflicts in production schedules, reports Deadline.
Shrine focuses on a disgraced journalist (Morgan) who discovers a series of divine miracles in a small New England town that has been touched by the apparition of the Virgin Mary and uses them to resurrect his career, but the “miracles” may have a much darker source.
Also announced are VFW‘s William Sadler (Bill & Ted Face the Music, Bogus Journey), Cary Elwes (pictured below in Saw, “Stranger Things”), Diogo Morgado (Son of God, The Killer), Cricket Brown, Marina Mazepa (James Wan’s Malignant), Christine Adams (“Black Lightning”, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), and Bates Wilde.
Evan Spiliotopoulos is directing the pic which is based on James Herbert’s best-selling novel. Ghost House Picture’s Rob Tapert also produces alongside Raimi.
Production is currently underway in Massachusetts.
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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