Fangoria has apparently received word through some unnamed sources Universal has plans to delay the impending release of their redux of The Wolf Man. No attribution to an actual source, or no reason for said delay was given.
Could this mean there’s trouble brewing in the editing bay? Who knows?The article was pretty sparse as far as details go, and after doing a little bit of hunting there doesn’t appear to be any other sources reporting the same, so it remains to be seen if this is true or not.
Supposedly, the brass are slotting the monster mash in for some time next fall. Originally, The Wolf Man was supposed to make its bow in February, 2009, then it was shifted to April.
I just hope things aren’t going off the rails in post because after seeing the footage that reared its ugly head at Comic-Con, which I’m sure many of you have perused by now, I have to say the film looks like it has a lot of potential. At the very least the makeup courtesy monster maestro Rick Baker looks pretty killer, as you can see by looking above.
Directed by Joe Johnston, written by Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self and starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt, The Wolf Man, as in the original, will focus on Lawrence Talbot (Del Toro) a nobleman drawn back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother, only to discover a horrifying fate for himself; Talbot learns something with an insatiable bloodlust has been decimating the local villagers. In the meantime, a dubious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.
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No source? No reason given? Wow! What solid news!
I lost interest when Romanek left. None of the great names associated with this movie probably would have signed up with Joe Johnston's Wolf Man. The design looks cool and it's a wolf man movie, so good on those things. But I'm already over those things. The movie has to be good, and I have little faith it got out of the gate filming for any other reason than to be on time rather than excellent. And it certainly isn't going to be on time. You need a mind like Romanek to make this movie worth doing, like you needed a Coppola for Dracula, which was a bit disappointing though still amazing in photography and effects. I feel like Romanek could have kept Wolf Man being more than just a tie in movie and could have made it much more.
Don't mock the wolfman.
Well damn, I guess I can wait a little longer.
"You need a mind like Romanek to make this movie worth doing, like you needed a Coppola for Dracula."
yeah, like the Wolfman is such a highbrow idea for a film like the original was.
It's a B movie, get over it.
"The Wolf Man, as in the original, will focus on Lawrence Talbot (Del Toro) a nobleman drawn back to his family estate after his brother vanishes"
It's been a while since I've seen it but I don't remember a missing brother in the original.
Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula is all about Winona Ryder's tits, if you ask me.
Winona Ryder has tits? How come I missed them?
Also – Anthony Hopkins in big budget movie? Disaster folks, disaster. No one remember Fracture? How about that one where he plays an ape. He's like a talent vampire. Put him in a movie and your leading man be doing TV movies for the rest of his life.
a "Monster Mash" implies more then one monster (Frankenstein vs. the wolf man). just making a correction, but I'm probably the only one that cares about that.
Yes, Winona Ryder has tits, and they are frickin HUGE.
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