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Florence Pugh, Shia LaBeouf and Chris Pine Will Star in Olivia Wilde’s Thriller ‘Don’t Worry Darling’
Actress Olivia Wilde made her feature debut as director with last year’s comedy Booksmart, and we recently learned that her second film will be a timely psychological thriller.
Last year, Wilde signed on to both direct and star in Don’t Worry Darling, a “Time’s Up era” thriller that will be distributed by “The House That Freddy Built,” New Line Cinema.
Deadline reports today that Florence Pugh, Shia LaBeouf and Chris Pine will also star.
Here’s the logline:
A psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to crack, revealing a disturbing truth underneath.
Shane and Carey Van Dyke (The Silence) wrote the original version of the script, with Katie Silberman on board to do a complete rewrite for Wilde’s film.
Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee (IT, The Ring) will produce with Wilde and Silberman. Catherine Hardwicke is exec producer.
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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