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Embeth Davidtz and Rufus Sewell Join the Cast of M. Night Shyamalan’s Next Thriller
The cast for M. Night Shyamalan‘s upcoming untitled thriller for Universal Pictures, the first of two he’s working on for the studio, continues to fill out this week, with Deadline reporting today that Embeth Davidtz (Army of Darkness, “Ray Donovan”), Rufus Sewell (Dark City, “The Man in the High Castle”) and Emun Elliot (Prometheus, “Guilt”) have joined the cast.
The ensemble also includes Gael García Bernal, Alex Wolff, Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung and Vicky Krieps.
Filming will begin on the untitled movie, which Shyamalan has described as being “weird and dark,” whenever it’s safe for productions here in the States to resume.
For now, no plot details are available.
The film’s current theatrical date is July 23, 2021.
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, 2o25.
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.
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.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
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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