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Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark Remake Scares Up New Casting
After Katie Holmes was cast back in early May for the Del Toro produced remake of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, all went quiet on the front… until now. Read on beyond the break to see who is in final talks to star and who was just recently cast in the Troy Nixey helmed thriller, which tells the story of a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers that they aren’t alone in the house.
Guy Pearce is in final negotiations and Bailee Madison is set to star with Katie Holmes in “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” Miramax’s supernatural thriller being directed by Guillermo del Toro protege Troy Nixey. Del Toro is producing with Mark Johnson.
“Dark” is based on a 1973 ABC telefilm about a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers they are sharing the house with demonic creatures.
Madison will play the girl, who discovers the creatures and is fascinated by them — until they prove dangerous. Pearce will play the father, an author frustrated by his daughter’s tales of monsters, not believing her even when his girlfriend (Holmes) backs her.
Del Toro and Matthew Robbins wrote the script.
The movie is set to begin production next month in Melbourne, Australia. (Del Toro is in New Zealand working on “The Hobbit.”)
Madison (“Bridge to Terabithia”) is beginning to make waves in the child-acting community. She next appears in Jim Sheridan’s “Brothers” alongside Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman. In the can and due for release next year are “An Invisible Sign of My Own,” with Jessica Alba, and “Betty Anne Waters,” with Hilary Swank. She is repped by Coast to Coast Talent, James/Levy Management and Lev Ginsburg.
Pearce, repped by CAA, Australia’s Shanahan Management and David Weber, has a cameo in Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” and next appears in “The Road,” Dimension’s adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel.
Every film in the Insidious franchise has received a PG-13 rating to date from the Motion Picture Association (MPA). That streak holds strong with Insidious: Out of the Further.
The sixth and newest installment has been rated PG-13 for “strong violent content, bloody images, terror and some strong language.”
Insidious: Out of the Further opens in theaters August 21 via Sony and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster.
As its title implies, the denizens of the Further are spilling out into our world in the new film, and its new MPA rating brings a fresh batch of images.
The film follows Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, who discovers she can travel into The Further, the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe.
When something evil comes after her, Gemma discovers an ability that changes everything: she doesn’t just enter The Further, she can bring what lives there back to the real world. Once the demons realize her power, our world becomes their playground.
Franchise star Lin Shaye reprises her role as Elise Rainier alongside Amelia Eve (“The Haunting of Bly Manor”) and Brandon Perea (Nope). Island Austin, and Maisie Richardson-Sellers (“Legends of Tomorrow”) star.
Sam Spruell (“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”) plays the malevolent entity known as Cyrus.
“[He] was truly scary,” Shaye previously teased. “When I met him on the street, I had a visceral response, which was crazy. So it’s a whole new catalog of people and even of ideas.” Get a peek at Cyrus below.
Jacob Chase (Come Play) writes and directs, sharing story credit with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (The Conjuring: Last Rites, Orphan). David Garbett (Evil Dead Rise) serves as director of photography.
Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan, and Leigh Whannell produce, with Johnson-McGoldrick, Ryan Turek, Steven Schneider, and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones as executive producers.
Cyrus (Sam Spruell) in Screen Gems’ INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER.
Nick (Brandon Perea) in Screen Gems’ INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER.
The Acolytes in Screen Gems’ INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER.
Clare (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) in Screen Gems’ INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER.
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