{"id":16659,"date":"2020-11-18T12:47:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=16659"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:28:07","slug":"freaky-director-christopher-landon-wants-jekyll-and-hyde-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/freaky-director-christopher-landon-wants-jekyll-and-hyde-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Freaky’ Director Christopher Landon Shoots His Shot For Jekyll & Hide Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Director Christopher Landon is a growing name in the horror genre after his success with Happy Death Day<\/em> and now the highly-anticipated Freaky<\/a><\/em> currently in theaters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If he had his way, he knows exactly what horror movie he’d tackle next: a remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/em>. Specifically, he’d love to do a spin on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella\u00a0The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/em> in the vein of Blumhouse’s Invisible Man<\/em> reimagining. While doing press for Freaky<\/em>, he was asked by ET<\/a><\/em> what classic horror property he’d reboot if he could and he was quick with his answer: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Jekyll and Hyde. That’s the one I would love to do. Look, I mean, [director] Leigh Whannell already has the best one, and he made the best one.\u00a0Invisible Man<\/em>\u00a0was just a total homerun.\u00a0And I think he’s gonna do the same thing with\u00a0Wolf Man<\/em>,\u00a0so he’s kind of got that corner. But I think\u00a0Jekyll and Hyde\u00a0would be a lot of fun, ’cause I think it’s just, as a concept, there’s a lot to mine there. And I think it’s genuinely scary, because we all kind of feel like we have monsters inside of us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Shoot your shot, Landon. Consider that him publicly throwing his hat into the ring for Blumhouse. And it’s likely he’ll get the job, too: Landon has been a mainstay in the Blumhouse family ever since penning the Paranormal Activity 2<\/em> script. With Blumhouse liking to work with trusted talent, you’d have to think Landon would be in the running for the job. If Blumhouse does indeed hit the greenlight on a Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde movie, that is, which appears likely considering they’ve gone all-in on rebooting Universal’s classic monster movies as standalone, filmmaker-driven projects with A-list stars attached. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whannell’s Invisible Man<\/em> was the first of those and became a huge hit earlier this year, grossing almost $125 million worldwide on a $28 million budget. Whannell’s success with that landed him the directing gig for the Ryan Gosling-led Wolf Man<\/em><\/a>. But Whannell isn’t the only director working on Universal monster movies. Two different Dracula-based movies are in the works with Destroyer<\/em> director Karyn Kusama developing a Dracula movie<\/a> and Rocketman<\/em>‘s Dexter Fletcher working on a movie about Renfield, Dracula’s minion. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Banks is working on The Invisible Woman<\/em> based on an original pitch by her, and Paul Feig is slowly assembling the pieces for a Dark Army<\/em> movie. Blumhouse has clearly shown itself open to projects it might not have been currently considering if they get a great pitch. If Landon wants to do a Jekyll and Hyde movie, he almost certainly can land the gig if he comes to Jason Blum & co. with a great idea for a story. With Landon’s bent for mixing horror with dark comedy, his vision of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson cautionary tale could be a lot of fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freaky<\/em> is in theaters now. Get Freaky<\/em> tickets here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Christopher Landon is a growing name in the horror genre after his success with Happy Death Day and now the highly-anticipated Freaky currently in theaters. If he had his way, he knows exactly what horror movie he’d tackle next: a remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Specifically, he’d love to do a spin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-16659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16660,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16659\/revisions\/16660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}