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Actors not afraid of 'Dark' redo


June 29, 2009 Guy Pearce is in final negotiations and Bailee Madison is set to star with Katie Holmes in "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," Miramax's supernatural thriller being directed by Guillermo del Toro protege Troy Nixey. "Dark" is based on a 1973 ABC telefilm about a young girl who moves in with her father and his girlfriend and discovers they are sharing the house with demonic creatures. Pearce, repped by CAA, Australia's Shanahan Management and David Weber, has a cameo in Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" and next appears in "The Road," Dimension's adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel.

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