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Will Angelina Jolie Play the ‘Bride of Frankenstein’?
Even though Fox is resurrecting Frankenstein this weekend with Victor Frankenstein, Universal Pictures is continuing forth with their own monsters revival, which includes modern/fresh takes on The Wolfman, The Mummy, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, and even Bride of Frankenstein.
The plans have been leaking out over the past year, but much of the details are still kept in the Mummy’s tomb.
THR, however, has sneakingly leaked some info on a story regarding Angelina Jolie Pitt‘s By the Sea, implying that the big time Hollywood star and producer could play the lead in Bride of Frankenstein.
But even if Universal loses tens of millions of dollars on ‘By the Sea,’ the studio is gambling that by backing Jolie Pitt’s artistic whim, she will be amenable to starring in its tentpole ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ from producer Brian Grazer.
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When awful, awful passion projects get made by studios, there’s usually a reason, and trading off financing one in exchange for the same “name” actor to appear in another is regular business.
James Whale’s 1935 Bride of Frankenstein is one of the greatest genre films of all time, and to see Jolie as the character would actually be pretty damn exciting. I am curious as to whom is penning the script and who they’re looking at for director.
The Mummy is being filmed off a script by Jon Spaihts while Aaron Guzikowski is tackling The Wolfman. Ed Solomon and Noah Hawley are working on a film for the series but it’s unsure which monster they’re going to focus on. Apparently, Chris Morgan (the Fast and the Furious franchise) is also a part of the collective that is working on this reboot series, although he supposedly hasn’t been assigned any specific character to work on.
One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.
With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.
Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…
“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”
If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.
Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.
Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”
Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.
Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.
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