In Blumhouse and Universal Pictures’ new Wolf Man movie, Ryan Gosling is just Ken.

The Barbie actor has been replaced by Christopher Abbott, who currently appears alongside Emma Stone in Searchlight’s Frankensteinian horror Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Gosling, who has been attached to the film for a while now, was to have worked with director Derek Cianfrance, who directed him in The Place Beyond the Pines and Blue Valentine. Both Cianfrance and Gosling have moved on from Wolf Man, but Gosling will retain an executive producer credit.

Leigh Whannell, who directed The Invisible Man for Blumhouse and Universal, and who originally was tapped as Wolf Man’s director, is now back in the director’s chair. Whannell wrote the script with Corbett Tuck and Lauren Schuker Blum. Jason Blum is producing.

This is Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth time directing for Blumhouse; in addition to 2020’s The Invisible Man, he helmed 2018’s Upgrade, and 2015’s Insidious: Chapter 3.

Plot details are being kept on the dark side of the moon but the mysterious story is now focused on a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator. The film is set to open in theaters on October 25th, 2024.

In addition to Poor Things, Abbott also appeared opposite Tom Holland in Apple’s The Crowded Room miniseries. He has previously appeared in Martha Marcy May Marlene and Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor.