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[Image] ‘History of the Occult’ Hopes to Expose Government Connection to an Actual Coven!
A U.S. remake is already in the works with a major genre producer.
Variety had the first look at History of the Occult, an Argentine political horror pic that’s also eyeing a U.S. remake.
Filmed in black and white and set in the 1980s, “History of the Occult takes place during the last broadcast of the #1 news show on TV, ’60 Minutes Before Midnight.’
“A band of journalists races against time to convince the lead guest, Adrian Marcato (German Baudino), to expose a conspiracy that connects their corrupt government to an actual coven.”
Worldwide and remake rights were acquired by Buenos Aires-based sales and production company, FilmSharks International, reports the site adding that advanced talks are underway with a streaming giant while a major U.S. genre producer is eyeing it for a remake.
“The feature debut of Christian Ponce has snagged several awards, among them the Le Film Français prize at Cannes’ Blood Window sidebar where it premiered; the Black Tulip best film honor at Amsterdam’s Imagine Festival; and the best director and audience prizes in the Terror Molins Festival’s Videodrome sidebar.”
The film also played at Spain’s premier fantastic film festival, Sitges.
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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