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Blink 182 Musician Tom DeLonge Directing Sci-fi Film ‘Monsters of California’
Former Blink 182 musician Tom DeLonge is channeling his passion for UFOs and extraterrestrial activity into a feature film he’ll sit in the director’s chair for, Deadline reports.
DeLonge is directing the coming-of-age sci-fi film Monsters of California, which is under production and has a cast in place that includes Richard Kind (“Gotham,” pictured above), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), Arianne Zucker (Days of Our Lives), Gabrielle Haugh (The Midnight Man), Camille Kostek, Jack Samson, Jared Scott and Jack Lancaster.
“Monsters of California is a coming of age adventure with a science fiction twist that follows teenager Dallas Edwards (Samson) and his derelict friends on a quest for the meaning behind a series of mysterious, paranormal events in Southern California. The truths they uncover begin to unravel extraordinary secrets held tightly within the deepest levels of the Government.”
Deadline also notes that DeLonge will compose original music for the film’s score.
Ian Miller wrote the script with DeLonge.
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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