Paramount has eliminated the Dakota Fanning / Bryan Bertino horror film Vicious from their 2025 launch schedule
Dakota Fanning (The Watchers) and The Strangers director Bryan Bertino are teaming up for a horror film known as Vicious, which is coming our approach from Paramount Footage… however we don’t know when Paramount goes to determine to indicate it to us. Initially set to obtain a theatrical launch from Paramount in August of 2025 (August eighth, to be actual), Vicious was pushed as much as February twenty eighth – however now, Deadline studies that the movie has been pulled off of Paramount’s launch schedule fully. They are saying, “The studio is looking to find a better date for the film.”
Scripted by Bertino, Vicious sees Fanning taking over the function of a younger girl who’s left an odd current by a late-night customer, and shortly realizes she is preventing for her life after slipping down a disturbing rabbit gap contained contained in the present.
Fanning is joined within the forged by Devyn Nekoda (Scream VI), Mary McCormack (The West Wing), Rachel Blanchard (The Summer season I Turned Fairly), Kathryn Hunter (Poor Issues), Klea Scott (Millennium), and Emily Mitchell (Abnormal Angels).
An Atlas Unbiased manufacturing, the movie is being produced by Richard Suckle, with Melinda Whitaker serving as govt producer.
Bertino made his function directorial debut with the 2008 horror movie The Strangers and has since adopted that up with three extra horror movies: 2014’s Mockingbird, which he co-wrote with Mr. Robotic creator Sam Esmail, 2016’s The Monster, and 2020’s The Darkish and the Depraved. He additionally wrote the preliminary screenplay for The Strangers: Prey at Evening, which bought a rewrite from Ben Ketai and ended up being directed by Johannes Roberts. Whereas Bertino focuses on Vicious, the Strangers franchise is constant on with out him. Director Renny Harlin lately shot a complete trilogy of Strangers motion pictures on the similar time, and thus far solely The Strangers: Chapter 1 has made its approach out into the world. We’re nonetheless ready to listen to when The Strangers: Chapter 2 and The Strangers: Chapter 3 are going to be launched. At present, they’re sitting in limbo with Vicious.
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