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Trio Join ‘Stake Land’ Director’s Revenge Thriller ‘Cold in July’
Sam Shepard (pictured above; “Killing Them Softly,” “Mud”), Don Johnson (Django Unchained) and Vinessa Shaw (below; Two Lover) have joined lead Michael C. Hall (“Dexter,” “Killing Them Softly”) in Cold in July, Jim Mickle’s follow-up to We Are What We Are, Variety reports.
Co-written by Mickle’s regular co-scribe, Nick Damici, Cold adapts Joe R. Lansdale’s cult-classic novel.
A crime thriller, “Cold on July turns on Richard Dane, a small town frame builder from East Texas who kills a burglar in self-defense. The dead man’s father swears revenge: A son’s life for a son’s life.
But the two guilt-stricken fathers become unlikely allies, aided by Dane’s tough-minded wife and a pig-raising detective from the Houston backwoods, as they discover a bigger secret, darker and more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.”
Hall plays Dane, Shepard and Johnson his sidekicks and Shaw his wife.
Shooting from July, Cold for July will be ready for delivery early 2014.
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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