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Taron Egerton, Scarlett Johansson in Talks for ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Film
We may be getting closer to a new film adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors. The project has been in development for four years, now, having first been announced in 2016.
Greg Berlanti (Love, Simon) has been set to direct the adaptation since that first announcement, but now we’re hearing buzz about possible casting that has us sitting up and paying attention.
BroadwayWorld.com is reporting that Taron Egerton (Rocketman) and Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Endgame) are in talks to take on the roles of Seymour and Audrey, the central couple in the story. Both actors definitely have the singing and acting chops for the role, but will sign on the dotted line?
No official decisions have been made at this time, but this could certainly lend star power to the film.
The musical tells the story of a nerdy young man named Seymour who works in a flower shop with the girl of his dreams, Audrey. The shop is failing until Seymour discovers a mysterious plant. Soon, business is blooming as the plant draws in customers by the dozen, but this plant needs more than sun and water to grow, and Seymour is driven to murder to keep Audrey II big and strong.
Little Shop of Horrors began its life back in 1960 as a pulp horror film from director Roger Corman (Pit and the Pendulum) which featured a young Jack Nicholson in a supporting role as a crazed, masochistic dental patient. Later on, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman adapted the film as a musical which ran off-Broadway in the early 80s before being adapted for the screen under the direction of Frank Oz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) in 1986.
Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters)Â and Ellen Greene (Pushing Daisies) played the Seymour and Audrey in the film with Levi Stubbs, a member of the Four Tops, supplying the voice of Audrey II.
Broadway vet and Pose star, Billy Porter is currently a fan favorite for the voice of Audrey II for the new film.
Our only other question is which ending will they use? The musical’s original ending saw Audrey II taking over the world with its seedlings, but the ending was changed in the film when test audiences reacted badly to the main characters dying and the evil plant destroying the world.
Hopefully, these decisions will be finalized soon and Berlanti’s production of the musical will be in full-swing.
Stay tuned to iHorror as more news becomes available!
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the SĂ©bastien VaniÄŤek upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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