The Cabin in the Woods

Here’s something you don’t see every day: Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon sitting down with Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise to talk about horror movies.

But that’s just what happened, Whedon told SCI FI Wire in an exclusive interview.

Whedon, who wrote the upcoming horror movie Cabin in the Woods with former Buffy writer Drew Goddard, met with Cruise as head of United Artists now that UA has taken over the MGM film as part of UA’s takeover of the lion studio.

"We met with him to hear his suggestions, sort of his take on it," Whedon said in a Dec. 6 interview in Los Angeles. "But it was already sort of in the pipeline when they bought it; that was the idea. We’re in preproduction. We start shooting in March, so the train has left the station, and so we’re just sort of, well, we’re filling up the train." The movie was shepherded by UA executive Mary Parent, who was an advocate of Whedon’s back when she was at Universal Pictures, which produced Whedon’s Serenity.

Goddard will helm the movie, which Whedon has previously said will be the horror movie to end all horror movies. Look for casting news soon.