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Hammer’s ‘Doctor Jekyll’ Starring Eddie Izzard Wraps Principal Photography
The legendary Hammer Studios will relaunch with a brand new upcoming take on the classic Doctor Jekyll, which features Eddie Izzard in the starring role as Nina Jekyll.
From director Joe Stephenson, we’ve learned courtesy of Variety that principal photography on Hammer’s Doctor Jekyll has now wrapped, with more casting news announced.
“In the film, a modern interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic 1886 novella “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,” Eddie Izzard plays Dr. Nina Jekyll, a recluse who finds friendship with her newly hired help, Rob, played by emerging actor Scott Chambers (“Chicken”). They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.”
The cast also includes Lindsay Duncan (“Birdman,” “Le Week-End”), Simon Callow (“Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Shakespeare In Love”), Jonathan Hyde (“Titanic,” “Jumanji”), Tony Jayawardena (“The Crown”) and Robyn Cara (“The Rising,” “Ackley Bridge”).
“The production is expected to target a fall festival birth,” Variety also notes.
Dan Kelly-Mulhern wrote the script for Hammer’s Doctor Jekyll. The film from the B Good Picture Company was recently acquired for UK release by the relaunched Hammer Studios.
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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