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“An Intense Little Horror Movie Would Be Great”: Sam Raimi on What He’d Like to Make Next
Opening in theaters this weekend, Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is Sam Raimi‘s first movie in nine years, following in the wake of Oz the Great and Powerful, Drag Me to Hell, and of course, Raimi’s original three Spider-Man movies. What’s next for Sam Raimi, you may be wondering? And will we have to wait another ten years for his return?
Speaking with Slash Film this week, Raimi lightly touched upon what he’d like to do next, suggesting that something a bit less massive in scope may be on the menu post-Strange.
“I wouldn’t want to go back to the budget of the first Evil Dead. I mean, that was brutal,” Raimi notes. “That was extremely difficult. But I would like to make something the size of The Gift or A Simple Plan, those smaller budget movies that are just about the characters and thrills.”
“An intense little horror movie would be great,” Raimi adds.
At the moment, Raimi doesn’t appear to have any upcoming projects on his directorial slate, though he did serve as an active producer on the upcoming feature film Evil Dead Rise.
Raimi is also producing upcoming films including 65 and Boy Kills World.
Stay tuned for more on all things Sam Raimi as we learn it!
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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