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Blumhouse and ‘Mudbound’ Filmmaker Dee Rees Making Social Horror Film
As evidenced by this year’s Get Out, Jason Blum has a knack for scooping up talented filmmakers and letting them do their thing. At a time when studios are ever-present in the creative process and movies are frequently made by committee, it sure is nice to see. There’s a reason the best and brightest come to Blum with their ideas, and Dee Rees is the latest to board that ship.
Tracking Board reports that the Emmy nominated Rees, who just made a splash with second feature Mudbound, will write and direct an untitled horror movie for Blumhouse. All we know at the moment is that it will center on the domestic lives of black lesbians in rural America. Presumably, the film will be akin to Get Out in that it will use the horror genre to start conversations about race relations in America that we ought to be having.
The low-budget horror movie will be set in one location with a tiny cast, and it’s inspired by Rees’ own experiences when she and her wife first moved into their new home in a small town.
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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