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[OMFG] Leigh Whannell Weighs In On ‘Dud Silence’!
Didn’t like Dead Silence? Well, you’re not alone. Leigh Whannell doesn’t like it all that much either and he wrote the damn thing!
A recent post on his blog bears the title “Dud Silence: The Hellish Experience Of Making A Bad Horror Film” and almost reads as the horror appendix to Lennon and Garant’s book “Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at The Box Office and You Can Too”.
Except this time out there’s no real glory (and probably not as much money). Per Whannell, “The shooting of the film was just as nightmarish for James Wan, the director, but I’ll let him tell you that story in his blog one day. I’ll finish by saying that when the film was released, Universal did zero promotion and dumped the film into theaters like toxic waste into a river. Insult, meet injury.”
Another choice quote? “Only in a place as fucking stupid as Hollywood would someone use the word `rules’ when talking about shape-shifting cat demons. The only logical response to Chad and Debbie’s question is “THERE ARE NO RULES, IT’S A SUPERNATURAL CAT YOU DICKHEAD.”
It’s definitely worth a read. Check it out.
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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