The Wolf Man: remake!
 

Del Toro is The Wolf Man
Source: Variety
March 15, 2006


Universal Pictures will scare up a new version of its horror classic The Wolf Man, with Benicio Del Toro playing the title role, reports Variety.

Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker has begun writing the script. Scott Stuber, Rick Yorn, Mary Parent and Del Toro will produce.

Like the 1941 original that starred Lon Chaney Jr., the new film will be set in Victorian England. Del Toro will play a man who returns from America to his ancestral homeland, gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy moonlight existence.

Walker spent several months working on some frightening new twists to a familiar tale, adding several characters and plot points that take advantage of cutting-edge visual effects technology.

Walker will turn in his first draft by the spring, and the producers and studio are optimistic that The Wolf Man will shoot early in 2007, after Del Toro completes Guerrilla, the Che Guevara film being directed by Steven Soderbergh.

The expectation is that The Wolf Man will be a summer 2008 tentpole.

Del Toro's an interesting enough choice for the lead, and Walker hasn't done a bad movie yet (except Hideaway, which wasn't THAT bad), so this one might not be so bad

start of a new trend ?
or continuation i guess ... they're reaching back further into the past for remakes

(i'm not counting the shitty recent mummy movies or the van helsing travesty)

Why wouldnt you count them? Even though they arent very good movies, they do exist, and they are undobtably part of the trend. Who says this wont be the same kind of fiasco as The Mummy?

eternal optimism ? :cool:



but as for your 1st question ... they werent remakes ...

This could be interesting. As long as they keep the CGI to a minimum.

Van Helsing wasn't, but I dont see how The Mummy wasn't a remake. Followed a similar plot to the original, simply changed for modern audiences. Isn't that basically the defination of a remake?

God, I really hope this doesn't happen.

Please, PLEASE don't let this happen.

*Falls to the ground, shaking*

I wouldn't mind seeing this if they can do it right. The bit about using "cutting edge visual technologies" scares me a bit. A good blend of CG and Make-up can work wonders though.

it wasnt a remake, by your opinion and definition every movie that has had something in common with another movie is a remake. when 90% of the time it is just an insperation.

and please dont go into how you thought they were alike, just sid down watch the mummy(1932), then watch the mummy(1999).

it was based off the original movie, but there are many differences.