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‘Ready or Not’ Directors Wanted Samara Weaving in ‘Scream 5’ But Scheduling Won’t Work Out
Ready or Not and V/H/S filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are resurrecting the Scream franchise with a brand new movie for Spyglass Media Group and Paramount Pictures next year, and the Radio Silence duo’s involvement immediately led many fans to wonder if Ready or Not star Samara Weaving would be coming on board to battle Ghostface.
Alas, while that was the hope, it looks like it’s just not going to work out.
“We were talking about it, but our schedules aren’t gonna work, which is a bummer,” Weaving just told Collider this week. “We talked about it a lot, but unfortunately, because of scheduling, I couldn’t do it. I”ll still be [in Australia], working on Nine Perfect Strangers, so we couldn’t make it work. Traveling is very difficult, these days.”
Needless to say, Weaving would’ve been a perfect addition to the Scream universe, and it’s not hard to imagine her becoming a new fan-favorite franchise character. Sigh.
The confirmed cast so far includes Jenna Ortega (“You”) and Melissa Barrera (“Vida,” In the Heights) alongside Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers and David Arquette as Dewey Riley.
The plan is for Paramount to release the untitled sequel in 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, 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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