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‘The Body Tree’ Riffs Slender Man, Steals Art From ‘Evil Dead’
It’s the death of originality in Thomas Dunn’s The Body Tree, which ITN will be repping at the forthcoming EFM in Berlin. Not only does the art completely rip off that of Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead remake, but the film is said to be “in the draft” of Sony Screen Gems’ Slender Man.
In the film, when a group of Americans travel to Russian Siberia to honor the memory of their murdered friend, they uncover a plot that threatens all their lives.
It stars Erica Dasher (ABC “Family’s Jane By Design”), Emma Dumont (FOX’s Marvel series “The Gifted”, NBC’s “Aquarius”, Inherent Vice), Costa Ronin (FX’s “The Americans”), Ana Flavia Gavlak (Amazon’s “Bosch”), and Chris Petrovski (CBS’s “Madame Secretary”).
Dunn is the award-winning writer and director of The Ungodly.
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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