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Leigh Whannell, the longtime Blumhouse creator and director of “The Invisible Man,” has signed an overall first-look deal with Blumhouse. The two-year deal will cover projects Whannell wants ...
Wolf Man director Leigh Whannell explains how his upcoming film is related to his previous work, The Invisible Man (2020). Starring Christopher Abbott as Blake, Whannell's Wolf Man reboot follows ...
Longtime Blumhouse writer/director Leigh Whannell has signed an overall deal with Blumhouse for film and television. Over the course of 10 years, Whannell and Blumhouse have collaborated on seven ...
Leigh Whannell achieved a memorable breakout with the low-budget horror movie Saw, which he co-wrote and starred in (as Adam) alongside Cary Elwes.Both Whannell and director James Wan subsequently ...
Corrections & Clarifications: “Wolf Man” director and co-writer Leigh Whannell's name was incorrect in an earlier version of this article. Pity the werewolf. I mean, duh. You get bitten or ...
In 2015, Leigh Whannell was named to Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch list. He didn’t see the honor coming, for three reasons: He had made only one film; it was a horror movie; and there was a ...
Leigh Whannell’s horror film Wolf Man hopes to join Den of Thieves 2: Pantera at the top of the weekend’s box office when it opens on January 17th, but judging by the mixed reviews from ...
Leigh Whannell, the actor-turned-writer who co-created the Saw and Insidious horror franchises, has joined the cast of Home Invasion, a thriller being made by Voltage Pictures and Zinc ...
Leigh Whannell, the co-creator of the “Insidious” series and writer of all four films, said when I asked him that I was right to read it that way.
Director Leigh Whannell frames the shot like a landscape, with the door as the horizon. The image is eerie and beautiful, and the closest we’ll get to Wolf Man’s titular beast for quite a while.
Instead, this month Whannell, a long-time screenwriter on Wan’s films and others, is back with Upgrade, his second feature as a director (after Insidious: Chapter 3). And it isn’t really a ...