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Timo Tjahjanto Teaming With ‘Sinister’ and ‘Doctor Strange’ Filmmakers on Top Secret Project!
Timo Tjahjanto is soon to be a legend.
It’s a little frustrating that this Indonesian-based filmmaker has yet to break in Hollywood, but it’s comforting to know that he’s set to get behind the camera for the remake of Train to Busan for James Wan’s Atomic Monster and New Line Cinema.
He also revealed on social media late last night that he’s attached to a project with the filmmaking team behind Sinister and Doctor Strange, director Scott Derrickson and writer C. Robert Cargill.
While he did share a photo of the script’s top page, he blocked out the title, which begins with an “H” and ends with an “R”. Any guesses?
What we did learn is that it’s an action film that veers into horror with Tjahjanto tweeting out this nugget of hype: “Ultra violent, ultra absurd, ultra over the top & ultra heartwarming.”
Timo should already be a household name in horror, having co-directed the insanely gory Macabre and the super popular V/H/S/2 segment “Safe Haven”. He’s also behind several classics including Netflix’s action-packed The Night Comes for Us, as well as May the Devil Take You, Headshot, and Killers. Oh, and just wait until you see his V/H/S/94 segment, it’s going to blow all your fucking minds.
There’s a lot of horror behind this project as Derrickson also directed The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Deliver Us From Evil and Hellraiser: Inferno, not to mention The Day the Earth Stood Still.
More on this hype project as it comes in.
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Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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