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Yeah I have complete confidence in this movie
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I'm very excited about this remake. With Del Toro in the lead though, I think they're going in a different direction from Chaney's childlike innocence. Del Toro is almost as menacing as The Wolf Man without makeup!
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I'm hoping we can understand him when he (Del Toro) speaks.
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Wolf Man Remake in Jeopardy??
Caught wind of a nasty rumor flying around the web that the writer's strike could either delay or flat out derail the Wolf Man remake. Don't know if anyone else has seen this. I blogged about it last night:
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If the writers strike does affect the Wolf Man remake, I can assure you it won't be permanent. It would be a matter of time until it got picked up again.
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Director leaves "The Wolfman"
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Director Drops Out of The Wolfman Source: Variety January 29, 2008 Director Mark Romanek has dropped out of Universal Pictures The Wolfman, reports Variety. The trade says Romanek exited the film late Monday night over creative differences. The film has long had Benicio Del Toro aboard to play the werewolf, and the studio just set Emily Blunt (Charlie Wilson's War) and Anthony Hopkins to play the other leads in the film. Universal maintains that Romanek left the project in strong shape and that it expects to set another director quickly. No word on whether a Feb. 18 start date will remain in place. The studio is targeting a February 13, 2009 release date for the horror flick. |
Now they're saying Cloverfield director Matt Reeves may step in. I covered it on my blog yesterday:
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January 30, 2008
No sooner was it reported yesterday that filmmaker Mark Romanek had exited Universal's remake of The Wolf Man -- starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, and Emily Blunt -- than rumors surfaced about who might replace him in the director's chair. Romanek's departure left the re-imagining of the 1941 horror classic in a lurch given its March start date. Variety reported yesterday that a replacement would be hired by week's end, and now Ain't It Cool News claims that they have heard of two possible contenders that the studio is considering for the job. According to AICN, Universal is eyeing Breck Eisner (Sahara) and Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) as possible replacements. Eisner has been developing a remake of The Creature From the Black Lagoon, while Reeves is preoccupied with a possible Cloverfield sequel as well as an Invisible Woman project for producer J.J. Abrams. Eisner may have the inside track since the long-gestating Creature From the Black Lagoon is, like The Wolf Man, based at Universal. |
John Landis is in the mix for the job
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Who Will Direct The Wolfman? Source: The Hollywood Reporter February 1, 2008 According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures is wasting no time in its search for a director for The Wolfman following Mark Romanek's exit from the period horror movie. Brett Ratner, Frank Darabont, James Mangold and Joe Johnston have either met with the studio and producers or are expected to do so in the coming days. Bill Condon also is a helmer the studio is keen on. The trade says the biggest challenge the studio faces is its inability to work on the script because of the writers strike. Any filmmaker coming on board takes on a locked script, overseen by Romanek over several years, and many directors want to put their stamp on it. Martin Campbell is one helmer who was interested, but he is no longer in contention. Many on the list are writer-directors, but Ratner is not. The director, who met with the studio Wednesday, is emerging as the strongest contender because of the fact that he has experience in taking over a project (X-Men: The Last Stand) that has lost a director late in the game. The studio is expected to find its man next week for the film, which has a dedicated March start date. |
AICN broke the news this evening of who will bark at the moon for Universal Pictures.
Joe Johnston - art director on Empire Strikes Back, Raider of the lost Ark and Return of the Jedi. And the director of Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, Jumanji and Jurassic Park III - has been tapped to helm The Wolf Man remake, which fell onto a heap of trouble when Mark Romanek unexpectedly quit. |
The latest on The Wolf-Man
September 16, 2008
Universal Studios Hollywood is getting set to preview Benicio Del Toro's The Wolfman this October as part of their Halloween Horror Nights theme park experience. The studio announced today that the Terror Tram: The Nightmare Tour will offer an exclusive preview of The Wolfman on the tram's LED screens. For those of you familiar with the park, it's worth noting that this year's Halloween tram ride will be double that of previous years. The Terror Tram, Universal says, will take guests off the familiar studio tram and lead them on foot past spooky movie landmarks like the Bates Motel and Psycho House, and into the menacing locations of Universal's legendary backlot. Upping the thrill factor a bit will be a series of mazes incorporated into the experience, guiding visitors through the sets of Psycho, and War of the Worlds. Also new to Halloween Horror Nights this year, will be a Nightmare on Elm Street maze attraction that's sure to terrify. The dates for Halloween Horror Nights are October 3-4, 10-11, 17-19, 24-26, 30-31 and November 1. The event will begin nightly at 7:00 p.m. The Wolfman, an update of the classic Universal monster movie, stars Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother, and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. The Wolfman hits theaters everywhere on April 3, 2009. |
The irony in this is you don't need to dress Del Toro up to make him look like a werewolf
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Sounds very cool! Wish I could go!
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I'd love to see Werewolf By Night made into a film. Guess its one of the Marvel characters no one gives a shit about. It'd be a killer flick especially if it was done Creepshow styles and captured the feel of the old comics.
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I've seen the trailer for The Wolfman and it looks very promising. Also stars Anthony Hopkins and Hugo Weaving.
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This has the potential of being a modern horror classic, for sure.
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The Wolf Man was actually filmed close to me, in Lacock, Wiltshire. I didn't find out until after they'd finished filming there though. If I'd known before I could of gone down to the set and probably met the stars. I was well gutted when I found out about it.
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They had a Frankenstein comic in the 70s too- drawn by Mike Ploog, who did the first Werewolf by Nights... can't think what the exact name of the comic was now...
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It was only faithful-ish (read: not very), but I thought it was a really fun little flick. It's a low budget b-movie for sure, but the story, gore and effects are all really solid. Worth a watch, IMO. |
Wolfman moves
Universal Moves Wolfman, Nottingham and Fast & Furious
Source: Variety December 9, 2008 Universal Pictures has pushed back the release of Joe Johnston's The Wolfman from April 3 to November 6 and taken Ridley Scott's Nottingham out of 2009 entirely, reports Variety. Also, the studio's Fast & Furious will now open on April 3, instead of June 12. Nottingham, toplining Russell Crowe, will open in 2010, but the studio did not set a specific date. Universal said the reshuffling was the sensible thing to do, considering that Fast & Furious is completed, while the Brian Grazer-produced Nottingham won't start filming until February or March. And moving The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro later in the year gives the film more of a high-profile release, as well as ample time for post-production. |
You'd think they'd want to release Wolfman in October.
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"The Wolfman" won't howl this year as planned.
Universal Pictures is moving the reboot of its classic monster franchise to early next year. The horror pic, which stars Benicio Del Toro as the hairy shape-shifter, will now be released Feb. 12 and serve as counterprogramming to New Line's romantic comedy "Valentine's Day," the Summit drama "Remember Me," with "Twilight's" Robert Pattinson toplining, and Disney's 3-D re-release of "Beauty and the Beast." It's the fourth date for "Wolfman" after roaming from Feb. 13 to April 3 and then Nov. 6 this year. "We have seen just how enormous first quarter movies can be," said Adam Fogelson, president of marketing and distribution for U, citing the $215 million that studios generated on the February weekend this year, versus the $136 million that pics earned on the November date last year. Marketers believe next year could become "a perfect storm" for distribs, considering Valentine's Day falls on a Sunday and will be closely followed by the President's Day holiday, the next day. The November slot will be taken by U's alien-abduction drama "The Fourth Kind," starring Milla Jovovich. It had previously not had a home on the release schedule. Studio picked it up from Gold Circle Films. |
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I saw the trailer when I watched Inglorious Basterds last night, it looks really really good. Thoughts?
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I've always been more of a werewolf fan than a vampire fan. The cast is outstanding, and the film looks great. I'm looking forward to it. |
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I, too, saw the trailer when I went to see Inglorious Basterds and I was shocked at how badly it made me want to see the film. I think it looks like a blast and I think that if I ignore the fact that it's a remake and just pretend that it's a period piece/werewolf movie I'll be all set... Though I still don't think that Del Toro can pull it off, honestly. He's really not that great an actor.
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Anyone seen the trailer to the wolfman? I thought it looked good. had a real classical look to it. Which in my opinion is a welcome step away from the emo infested rubbish. That has been infecting such great movie monster in the past few years.
http://yourmovies.com.au/news/?i=174194&action=news Thats the link to the trailer if you haven't seen it yet. Thats if you haven't been living under a rock for a while. cause this is honestly the first time i heard they were even making it. |
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http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...er-512x683.jpg Plot: Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother… and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate. |
After seeing some of the screens, and reading a little on it, I'm not as against this. I'm just worried that this may become another Van Helsing, and not contain as much of the original horror and premise of the 1941 classic.
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Plagued by production problems from beginning to end, Joe Johnston’s adaptation of The Wolfman is coming to a theater near you on February 12, 2010.
However, the chances of you liking it went up a little today as Universal happily announced that an R-rated cut of the film has won out over a tamer PG-13 version. The Wolfman has finally received a rating from the MPAA, and has been rated ‘R’ for “bloody horror, violence and gore.” Of course, an R-rating is no stamp of quality, but the difference in ratings means that instead of an action movie which a PG-13 rating implies, The Wolfman is going to get to be a longer, bloodier, and gorier horror film. Now let’s just hope it’s a good one. The Wolfman stars Benecio Del Toro, Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving. Here’s the official synopsis: Lawrence Talbot is a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother…and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Lawrence Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate. As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself…one he never imagined existed. |
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