Hugo Weaving has signed on to star in Joe Johnston’s* The Wolfman as Detective Aberline. If you’re Benecio del Toro and you turn into a hairy werewolf when the moon is full and kill people, the presence of a detective in your immediate vicinity can’t be good. I imagine Weaving will be trying to stop old fuzzy before the next full moon when he takes to killing mooks on the moors**.
Emily Blunt and Anthony Hopkins also star in the remake of the 1941 Universal horror classic. Shooting starts next month in London. Hey Universal, my passport is totally up to date!
*No offense to Joe, but can we really say this is his movie? He’s coming on so late after so much pre-production was done that it seems impossible to imagine that his The Wolfman won’t be filled with Mark Romanek’s ideas.
**moops
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Seinfeld joke
Is Hayden Christiansen in this?
Same Aberline as in FROM HELL? Or am I insane. Fact is fiction, fiction is fact. Girls will be boys and boys will be girls. I think that was two Ls.
Two B's I think, he was the real detective who hunted Jack the Ripper.
Incidentally, Jack the Ripper was an American quack doctor named Tumblety, Abberline was ready to arrest him when he fled across the Atlantic. True fact.
Well a director can shape the tone of any film no matter what is on the page. The design of the set. The actor's cast.
A good example of this is the last Exorcist films. Paul Schrader and Renny Harlin worked with basically the same script. On the same sets. With the same lead. But the tone of each film is vastly different (although equally flawed for different reasons).
Mark Romanek probably was looking to do something more cerebral (i.e. Ang Lee's Hulk, which I love BTY, no matter what naysayer think) and the executives pooped there collective pants. Enter Joe Johnston with his giant bucket of popcorn and all the executives happily reached in to have a taste (hopefully after washing off there poop-covered fingers), liked what Johnston feed them, and now everything is swell on the Universal lot.
Johnston is not the decision I would of made (I would of loved to see what "The Descent" director could of done with a big budget) but it is the smart play. Dude knows how to make a fun flick with a certain whimsical touch. I'm looking forward to it.
When the director of The Descent is given a big(ger) budget, you get Doomsday.
Huh?
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