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‘Ultra’ Marathon Runner Involved in a Deadly Race
Tristar Pictures has preemptively acquired Ultra, a survival thriller spec script by Colin Bannon, reports Deadline, which names Squid Games for the recent appetite for survival projects and hilariously notes that Bannon wrote this before the Netflix series (L.O.L.).
Digressing, the story details are slim, but very cool. Apparently, the protagonist is an ultramarathon runner involved in a deadly race. I guess you can say it’s Squid Games-ish, but I’d say this sounds more like Battle Royale or The Most Dangerous Game, which was also recently remade. The indie The Human Race also tackled this very concept well with a reality show theme.
Jake Scott is directing Ultra with plans to go into production by the middle of next year.
Sugar 23’s Sukee Chew is producing. More soon.
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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