The Wolfman (remake)

[Brian in Mesa]

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

 

[Chaplin]

Considering how often Frankenstein and Dracula have been remade over the years, it's surprising how long it has taken for this.

That said, the cast and director sounds like an intriguing fit. Much better than most remakes.

 

[Stout]

I dig it. Can't wait to see it (but I'll have to )

 

[Brian in Mesa]

The Wolfman to Face Agent Smith
Source: Variety
February 22, 2008

Hugo Weaving will join Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt in Universal's The Wolfman, reports Variety.

Weaving ("The Matrix" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogies) will play Det. Aberline. Del Toro will play the hirsute title character and Anthony Hopkins his dad. Blunt has been cast as the female lead in the project, which Joe Johnston will direct.

Filming begins next month in London.

David Self did a rewrite of Andrew Kevin Walker's script. The movie is produced by Scott Stuber, Mary Parent, Sean Daniel and Rick Yorn.

Universal has set a February 13, 2009 release date for the pic.

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Less than a year, Stout.

 

[Pariah]

Considering how often Frankenstein and Dracula have been remade over the years, it's surprising how long it has taken for this.

That said, the cast and director sounds like an intriguing fit. Much better than most remakes.

I haven;t seen the original, but isn't it the template for all werewolf movies?

Also, I completely agree that Del Toro already seems wolf-manish...great casting.

 

[Stout]

Hey, sounds like a fun movie. And I have to say, a remake of a movie that old, well, is a lot better than a remake of a 1970s movie.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I'd set my expectations to LOW. As inside info as it gets. Just... yeah. low expectations from everything except Rick Baker. His work leading up to production has apparently been pretty sick.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

New poster...

Release date of 12/02/2010. So it went from summer of '08 to February of '09 to very late '10...

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[Renz]

Jeez, it's taken over four years to get this to theaters. Doesn't bode well. Probably been re-written 10 times by 10 different writers.

Also, is this wolfman going to kill people with his claws and teeth or just strangle them like Lon Chaney did?

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Jeez, it's taken over four years to get this to theaters. Doesn't bode well. Probably been re-written 10 times by 10 different writers.

Also, is this wolfman going to kill people with his claws and teeth or just strangle them like Lon Chaney did?

The preview I saw looked just like a movie that's been pieced together over a long period of time...it looked like it was trying to go in many different directions. The one thing I can be sure of - this is a "kill people with claws and teeth rather than just strangling them" kind of film.

 

[UncleChris]

As Han Solo would say.... "I've got a baaaaaaddddd feeling about this..... "

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Ah 12.2.10 as in February 12, 2010 ... lame.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

The Wolfman

Release Date: February 12, 2010
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Joe Johnston
Screenwriter: Andrew Kevin Walker, David Self
Genre: Action, Horror
MPAA Rating: R (for bloody horror, violence and gore)
Website: TheWolfmanmovie.com

Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Art Malik

Plot Summary: Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, "The Wolfman" brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Oscar® winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Oscar® winner Anthony Hopkins), 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 (Emily Blunt), 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 (Hugo Weaving) 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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[SuperSpck]

Previews look solid. Nothing new, but at least well done.

 

[Shane]

This was an absolute snooze fest. Total garbage! I still cant believe I spent the 13.00 it cost to see this in Extreme Digital. I wouldn't even recommend for a rental.

 

[CaptTurbo]

Didnt care for it at all. One of my favorite actors of all time in Anthony Hopkins didnt even do well in this awful script.

 

[UncleChris]

Rottentomatoes.com pans it with 32%.... I'll get it when it's out as a rental.... maybe...

 

[Pariah]

this was a stinker. didn't even finish it.