Craven Project Still "Cursed"?

Wes Craven's "Cursed" will be back up and running this week, with Portia de Rossi added to a cast that includes Christina Ricci, Skeet Ulrich, Omar Epps, Shannon Elizabeth and Scott Foley. The actress, who stars in the Fox series "Arrested Development" from Imagine Television, will appear in the film's opening sequence, the specifics of which are being kept under wraps. The Dimension Films project (from the "Scream" team of Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson) was put on an extended hiatus during the summer so the filmmakers could plan for more special effects than originally anticipated and further develop the ending.

The movie's been one problem after another for the horror director. Originally, Craven was to remake the Japanese film "Pulse" by Kiyoshi Kurasawa. Dimension shut the project down a month before shooting, then offered the director another project - the werewolf flick "Cursed", which focuses on a group of people dealing with the aftermath of a werewolf attack.

After 11 weeks of shooting, Dimension pulled the plug on Craven once again - this time to fix the script. In early September, Craven told SciFiWire that shooting should begin again in November, but at this point it's anyone's guess what delays lay ahead. Hopefully, the talented director will be able to remove the curse from "Cursed".

Source: Hollywood Reporter