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Vampire Comedy ‘Slayer’ Bites Into Ashley Reyes Ahead of AFM
“American Gods” actress Ashley Reyes has been cast in comedy horror film Slayer, joining previously announced stars Abigail Breslin (Signs, Zombieland, Zombieland: Double Tap), Thomas Jane (Deep Blue Sea, The Mist, The Predator), and Malin Akerman (Watchmen, Final Girls, Rampage), Deadline reports out of the American Film Market.
Directed by K. Asher Levin, “the film follows a group of internet influencers who are drawn to a reclusive, seductive billionaire’s mansion (Akerman), only to find themselves trapped in the lair of an evil vampire. The only way out is to be saved by a famous online gamer (Kara Hayward) and an old school vampire hunter (Jane).”
The site says that Reyes will play Natalie, a millennial fantasy of an entrepreneurial power broker.
Breslin, Levin, Daniel Cummings and Zack Imbrogno are producing.
Exec producers are Jane and Courtney Lauren Penn via Renegade Entertainment, BondIt Medial Capital’s Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor and Grady Craig, Film Mode’s Clay Epstein, Josh Monkarsh, as well as Akerman.
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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