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Three More Heads Spin for Exorcist Drama ‘The Rite’
Alice Braga (Repo Men, Predators, I Am Legend), Ciaran Hinds (Eclipse, Harry Potter) and Toby Jones (Frost/Nixon) have joined that cast of New Line’s exorcism drama The Rite opposite Anthony Hopkins and Colin O’Donoghue. Contrafilm’s Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson are producing and Mikael Hafstrom is directing from Michael Petroni’s screenplay. The story centers on a seminary student who attends exorcism school and Hopkins will play an expert in exorcisms. Hinds and Jones will portray priests. Script’s adapted from Matt Baglio’s “The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist.” Christy Fletcher is co-producing, and New Line’s Richard Brener and Merideth Finn are overseeing.
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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