Hopper & Whitaker in Wes Craven's 25/8

Sorry for the obvious false headline which I tried to catch you out with. The Hollywood Reporter say it will be Henry Lee Hopper (who is actually the son of Dennis) and Denzel Whitaker (no relation to Forest, despite some resemblance) who will co-star along with Shareeka Epps and Emily Meade as the foursome of unknowns in Wes Craven's new horror movie 25/8. Craven's idea is to go with unknowns for the main players so that no star power will suggest who lives or dies. It's not a new horror trait and he of course has used this technique himself with the castings of both Scream and ANightmare on Elm Street.

Hopper, the son of Dennis Hopper, will play the lead role of Bug, one of seven teens haunted by a serial killer who supposedly died when they were born 15 years earlier. The film takes place over the course of a day as the mystery of who (or what) is stalking the small-town high schoolers unfolds.

Sounds an awful lot like Scream and the whole movie has that sense about it. The sense that Wes Craven is going to reinvent the genre again, that he's going to get back to his best and embarrass his peers and show them how these movies should be done. Craven has a keen knack for coming out of nowhere will a killer horror concept once every decade. We haven't had one in the 00's yet. And after all this is his first original script since New Nightmare (which was cool) and his first 100% original setup (i.e. not continuation of a franchise) since The People Under the Stairs in 1991. Something feels exciting about this. Do you share my optimism or am I setting myself up for a failure here. Are you at all worried that only one of these cast members was actually born in the 80's?