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Universal Heads Down ‘Pet Sematary’-Like ‘Sinkhole’ with Issa Rae and Jordan Peele!

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Jordan Peele‘s next production sounds a bit like Pet Sematary, only the horror comes from the bottom of a pit in the back of a family’s yard.

Universal Pictures, “Insecure” star and creator Issa Rae and Oscar-winner Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) are teaming up on Sinkhole, a “thought-provoking genre piece that engages with questions of female perfection and identity,” reports Deadline.

Leyna Krow’s short story is “about a young family which moves into their dream home, except for the gaping sinkhole in the backyard.

“The mysterious sinkhole manages to fix broken and destroyed things. However, the story asks, what if that thing is a person?”

Rae, whose “Insecure” scored three Emmy nominations yesterday, will potentially star in the adaptation.

Per the site: “Writer Krow is from Spokane, Washington, and the story is set on the street she lives on. She was initially inspired to write the piece when a group of local writers were asked to write short fairytales on the theme ‘I Married A Monster’. She wanted to explore the notion of female perfection and was particularly interested in the ways society and cultures can promote the concept of women as imperfect or broken. Her story has the trappings of a grounded, psychological sci-fi/horror, but the sub-plot is a commentary on the human condition through the lens of female identity.”

Rae will also produce with Universal and Peele’s Monkeypaw. Producers are Peele and Rosenfeld, with Rae, Montrel McKay and Sara Rastogi for Issa Rae Productions.

Jordan Peele as The Narrator of the CBS All Access series THE TWILIGHT ZONE. Photo Cr: Robert Falconer/CBS © 2018 CBS Interactive. All Rights Reserved.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

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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