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Bloody Valentine Helmer Takes on ‘I Saw’ Remake
After being announced what feels like decades ago, Joel Silver’s Dark Castle is finally getting rolling on I Saw What You Did, a remake of the 1965 William Castle-directed I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are!. The big news is that the film will reteam director Patrick Lussier with screenwriter Todd Farmer (Jason X), who collaborated on Lionsgate’s My Bloody Valentine 3D (arriving on DVD/Blu-ray next Tuesday). Read on for more.
The original Castle pic, which starred Joan Crawford, was based on the Ursula Curtis novel “Out of the Dark” and revolved around two girls who innocently pass the time making prank phone calls to unsuspecting people until they call the wrong guy.
Pic will be produced by Silver, Andrew Rona and Steve Richards. Dark Castle will finance and distribute through Warner Bros.
Lussier has a long relationship with Dark Castle prexy Rona, which goes back to his editing the first “Scream,” when Rona was co-president of Dimension.
Dark Castle’s first film was a remake of William Castle’s 1959 pic “House on Haunted Hill.”
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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