Well hell the heck yes, my fine horror friends, we are having quite the news day for all things spooky and this might just be the best bit yet. Upgrade and The Invisible Man helmer Leigh Whannell is in talks to direct Ryan Gosling in Universal's upcoming Wolfman remake, per a report in Deadline. The report notes that Universal has set Wolfman on the fast-track with Jason Blum's horror heavyweight studio Blumhouse boarding the picture to produce alongside Gosling. Whannell will also write the treatment for the film based on an original idea with Lauren Schuker Blum …
Pardon my french, but hell yeah. Leigh Whannell is making a follow-up to his breakout hit sci-fi horror Upgrade, and we're not getting a feature-length sequel, oh no, we're getting a whole dang series. Blumhouse Television and NBCUniversal's UCP are teaming to adapt Upgrade into a TV series with Whannell set to return as director. Whannell co-created and will executive produce the series with showrunner Tim Walsh (Shooter). Per the press release, the series "picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version …
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Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man. If you have not seen the movie, do not continue on! If you’re still with me, you know that the ending of Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man had a pretty significant plot twist. For most of the movie, the audience is led to believe that Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) has found some sort of way to fake his own death and terrorize Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss) as an invisible presence. While searching Adrian’s lab, Cecilia confirms these suspicions when she finds a suit with the …
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This has not been what you'd call a terrible weekend for Leigh Whannell. Shortly after the filmmaker's The Invisible Man nabbed a $29 million opening weekend on a $7 million budget, Whannell signed an overall deal with Blumhouse for film and television. The two-year first-look deal will reportedly cover projects Whannell will write, direct, and/or produce. Here's what Whannell had to say in a statement: [caption id="attachment_866316" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Universal[/caption] “Ten years ago, I walked into Jason Blum’s office thinking that I was having a general meeting …
On March 16, 2007, director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell released Dead Silence in theaters, hot off the heels of their smash 2004 low-budget horror film Saw. Upon its release, Dead Silence was pretty much dead in the water, grossing an abysmal $22 million worldwide off a $20 million budget, and earning a rotten 20% on Rotten Tomatoes. On August 31, 2011, Whannell took his blog, The Word in the Stone, and wrote a beyond-frank post entitled "Dud Silence: The Hellish Experience Of Making A Bad Horror Film." In case that doesn't clue you in on …
The writer/director talked to ReelBlend about how the project came to him.
Collider’s Perri Nemiroff recently got to sit down with writer/director Leigh Whannell to talk about his upcoming horror reboot The Invisible Man and wasted no time asking him the question that has been on everyone’s minds since December of 2018 - what happened to the cargo pilot after Aquaman and Mera suddenly jump out of his airplane? [caption id="attachment_874635" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via WB[/caption] Whannell, a longtime collaborator of Aquaman director James Wan’s, played the bewildered pilot who flew Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and Mera (Amber Heard) out into the desert, having no idea …
In the interest of transparency, Leigh Whannell has revealed that his remake of The Invisible Man has wrapped principal photography in Sydney, Australia. The filmmaker broke the news on his twitter before diving into the editing process on the film—an updated take on the classic 1933 Universal monster movie—before its February 28, 2020 release date. "It is 6am and freezing and raining here in Sydney but I am smiling because that is a WRAP on the Invisible Man shoot," Whannell wrote. "Thanks to all the amazing crew members who made it a joy to go to 'work' every …
Production has officially kicked off in Sydney, Australia for director Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man, the remake of Universal Picture's classic monster movie about an insane see-through scientist. Whannell celebrated the occasion by posting a photo from set; you'll see that the director is re-teaming with his Upgrade cinematographer Stefan Duscio, and you'll also notice leading man Oliver Jackson-Cohen in character doing a sick backflip in the background. That's a joke. He's invisible, you see. Exact plot details on this re-imagining of the original 1933 movie have been kept under …
Universal and Blumhouse have lined up a release date for Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man and the reimagining of the horror classic will have some fellow monster competition. The Invisible Man will hit theaters on March 13, 2020, which was previously bookmarked for an Untitled Blumhouse Productions Project. That date puts the film up against Warner Bros.' big-budget monster brawl Godzilla vs. Kong, which is sure to stir up some box office competition with the two Big Bois of the MonsterVerse going head-to-head. It's an interesting move since both films are ostensibly targetting monster fans, …
Notable horror studio Blumhouse only announced they were moving forward with their own version of The Invisible Man in January, but shooting is starting surprisingly soon.
Upgrade writer-director Leigh Whannell is keeping busy. A few days ago, we reported that Whannell was set to write and direct a new version of The Invisible Man for Universal that would scrap all the Dark Universe plans and go for something that doesn’t have to worry about an interconnected universe. Now Whannell is attached to write the remake of John Carpenter’s classic 1981 sci-fi action film Escape from New York. For those who are unfamiliar with the movie, it stars Kurt Russell as convict Snake Plissken, who is tasked with rescuing the President from Manhattan, …
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