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An Odd Choice Made for New ‘The Ring 3D’ Script?
The future of The Ring franchise in the States has been an uncertain one for some time now. In Japan, there have been five films as well as two TV series. In the U.S., we’ve only got two films and now the next planned installment, The Ring 3D, may be getting a new script.
Deadline reports that Paramount is in talks with screenwriter Akiva Goldsman to pen a new draft of the script, with F. Javier Gutierrez directing. Goldsman is best known for writing Oscar-bait like A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man, as well as flops like this year’s A Winter Tale.
He seems like an odd choice to bring in for a Ring film. Well, “seems,” isn’t really an appropriate word – he is an odd choice. Then again, it’s been 10 years since The Ring Two, maybe the franchise could use a different approach. Like Samara could utilize Blu-ray technology rather than come out of a VHS tape. It might take a while until she can find someone with a VCR nowadays, y’know?
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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