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Hugh Grant and ‘It’ Star Sophia Lillis Join the ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Movie
A new movie adaptation of the popular tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons is finally happening, with Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, co-directors of 2018’s hilarious comedy Game Night and writers of Spider-Man: Homecoming, on board to direct.
Chris Pine is set to star, it was announced some time ago, with Michelle Rodriguez (Resident Evil) and Justice Smith (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) more recently joining the cast.
Deadline reports today that Hugh Grant and Sophia Lillis (It, It Chapter Two, Gretel & Hansel) have also come on board. According to the site, Grant is playing the film’s villain.
The upcoming adaptation comes courtesy of Hasbro/eOne and Paramount. The movie, according to a Deadline report, is said to “take a subversive approach to the game.”
Goldstein and Francis Daley are also writing the script.
Designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons was first published in 1974. Between 2000 and 2012, three Dungeons & Dragons films were released.
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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