Katie Holmes has signed on to star in Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark, the latest scary fillum from the demented mind of Guillermo del Toro*.
Based on a 1973 television movie, **Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark **tells of a young girl who moves into a new house along with her dad and his girlfriend, only to find that they share the property with devilish monsters. Which, we’re guessing, wasn’t mentioned in the brochure. And we’re also guessing that Holmes will play the girlfriend in one of her first major movie gigs since Batman Begins.
Because Del Toro is busy making something called The Hobbit, he’ll be restricting his involvement on this to writing and producing. The writing duties have been shared with Matthew Robbins, the producing duties with Mark Johnson, while the directing duties have gone to first-timer, Troy Nixey, who caught Del Toro’s eye with a short film called** Latchkey’s Lament**.
But the film will be marketed as a ‘Gullermo Del Toro Presentation’, further proof that the Pan’s Labyrinth director’s name has gained suitable levels of prestige over the last couple of years.
Filming will start on the Miramax film this summer in Melbourne.
And yes, eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that this is the second time we’ve used a variation on that headline. What do you want from us – creativity?