Radio Silence is the directing team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and they first landed on everyone’s radar with their Samara Weaving-led horror-comedy “Ready or Not. That also caught the attention of Spy Glass Media, who tasked them to direct the last two “Scream” installments—a seventh film now getting ready to go in front of cameras in the near future. However, Radio Silence is putting together a mystery monster thriller at Universal Pictures that is currently without a title. They’ll be reuniting with one of the key players in the recent “Scream” films with their new genre project.
Deadline reports that actress Melissa Barrera (“In The Heights,” “Scream VI”) will take an undisclosed role in the new genre hybrid pic from the directing duo. Barrera is a franchise lead in the modern “Scream” movies and plays the daughter of Billy Loomis, one of the original killers from the first Wes Craven pic.
Screenwriters Stephen Shields and Guy Busick are behind the mysterious script. While details are scarce, at the moment, it’s being compared to the other “monster projects” at Universal that may or may not be directly connected to the greater Universal Monsters world. Once upon a time, the studio attempted to make a single cinematic universe with the Dark Universe, only to pump the breaks when Tom Cruise’s “Mummy” failed to make a splash with audiences. In the wake of all that, the studio has released things like the thriller version of “The Invisible Man” and the new satirical Dracula film with “Renfield.” The latter is now in theaters.
Other things connected to the Universal Monsters in the works at the studio include a new “Wolfman” take with Ryan Gosling (“Barbie”) attached to star, a remake of “Bride of Frankenstein” that once had the involvement of Angelina Jolie, yet another Dracula hybrid pic coming from Oscar-winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”), and even more in development. This summer, their next big horror release is “The Last Voyage of The Demeter,” about Dracula’s violent journey to London on the high seas.