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Fox Puts Down Roots On ‘The Unseen’
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Fox just purchased a “biblical thriller” script called The Unseen. While “biblical thriller” can mean pretty much anything (I’m looking at you Left Behind), this script by John Travis (The Haunting Of Molly Hartley) seems to have a decidedly horror-ish bent. To the point where I would call it a “supernatural” horror film. I mean, do you call The Exorcist a “biblical thriller?” Forgive me for that San Diego-style wheel-spinning while I tell you more about the film.
It’s actually based on a short story called “Mr. Pettinger’s Daemon” culled from author John Connolly’s anthology “Nocturnes“. The story “centers on a hospital cleric who is tasked with treating a fellow clergyman in a remote parish who has been displaying severe signs of mental illness. When he arrives, he discovers that the root of his colleague’s erratic behavior is a biblical force of evil that is trying to surface from deep below the church.”
Maybe I should check out the short story, eh? Hutch Parker is producing the film.
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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