Riverdale star Madelaine Petsch just dropped a teaser and revealed the date to Renny Harlin’s remake of the 2008 movie, The Strangers, which will haunt theaters on May 17, 2024. More movies, exhibitors, filling vacancies on next year’s theatrical schedule.
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Froy Gutierrez (Cruel Summer) and Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy) also star in the movie, which is being plotted as a trilogy.
The original movie was a home invasion pic that Bryan Bertino wrote and directed in his feature debut, with Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman starring. It was followed up by a sequel in March 2018, The Strangers: Prey at Night. Together they made over $113M at the global box office.
The new movie centers around Petsch’s character as she drives cross-country with her longtime boyfriend (Gutierrez) to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they’re forced to spend the night in a secluded Airbnb, where they are terrorized from dusk till dawn by three masked strangers.
Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland (The Freak Brothers, Due Date) wrote the latest installment. Courtney Solomon (Cake, After film franchise), Mark Canton (Power Universe, 300), Christopher Milburn (The Protégé, Unhinged), Gary Raskin (Midway), Charlie Dombeck (The War with Grandpa) and Alastair Birlingham (Moonfall) are producing. Andrei Boncea, Dorothy Canton, Roy Lee and Rafaella Biscayn are EPs. The Slovakia-based Frame Film SK, Johanna Harlin, Juan Garcia Peredo and Alberto Burgueno serving as co-producers.
Also opening on May 17 is Paramount’s John Krasinski directed kid movie If.