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Hulk Director ‘Strays’ to Radioactive City
Only time will tell how much “horror” this project carriers, but either way Louis Leterrier, whose INCREDIBLE HULK was the weekend’s boxoffice champ, is negotiations to develop and direct Strays, an eco action thriller written by Michael Ross, at Summit. In “Strays,” a group of young consultants on a business trip to Russia mysteriously wake up in an abandoned and radioactive city and fight to survive the deadly obstacles in between them and safety. Leterrier’s other credits include the Jason Statham action movies “The Transporter” and it’s sequel plus the Jet Li actionner “Unleashed.” He is repped by Endeavor and Management 360. Gersh-repped Ross wrote Fox Atomic’s horror movie “Turistas” and most recently worked on the Near Dark remake for Rogue and Platinum Dunes.
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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