The Wolf Man (updated: new trailer!)

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Benicio Del Toro is 'The Wolf Man'!

You read it correctly, the headline says it all as UniVersal Pictures is going back in time and resurrecting The Wolf Man with Benicio Del Toro set to play the title role.

Andrew KeVin Walker, the screenwriter behind SeVen, is already at work writing the script which 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.

Scott Stuber, Rick Yorn, Mary Parent and Del Toro will produce and apparently the deal came out of a series of meetings with the producers, Walker and Del Toro, who collects Wolf Man memorabilia.

Walker's first draft of the script is expected to be completed by Spring 2006 and the studio and producers are confident an early 2007 shoot will be met with the film becoming a Summer 2008 tentpole for Uni.

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news.php?id=3628

:rollin

[Darth McBain]

I don't know - while it may end up being good, I just am not that excited for this... I think after I saw Cursed I gave up hope on werewolf movies...

[Mitch]

Hmm, my nickname around the shop is "Wolfman," so it better be good to live up to my high standards.

Actually, I'm not really enthused by this, but it could be okay.

[Atreyu]

Hmmm, may be something to keep track of. I'm curious at the use of the term 'resurrecting', considering that the Wolf Man was one of the characters used in 2004's Van Helsing ... unless they mean resurrected as a title character (and not a supporting one).

Personally, I never saw the Wolf Man as being one of Universal's big drawcard monsters ala. Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, heck even the Mummy. So I'm not overly excited about this news either.

[Vega Van-Derveld]

I think they're using "resurrecting" to basically mean remaking the older film of the same title: http://imdb.com/title/tt0034398/

[Dasquian Belargic]

Three years later, a trailer appears!

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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 fiancee, 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.

Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III) directs The Wolfman, and six-time Oscar-winning special effects artist Rick Baker brings his design and makeup talents to transform Del Toro into the fearsome title character.

[Tear]

Its got my money! Good bye 11.50$. Hugo Weavings the man! (Hopkins and Del Toro as well)

[Dasquian Belargic]

It's a great cast, isn't it? :D

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

The trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS02xaTIdRI&feature=channel

The website:

http://www.thewolfmanmovie.com/


Yay werewolves!! The transformation bits they showed in the trailer looked great, and the whole atmosphere looks fantastic. Dark and foreboding.

[General Dan]

Yay, I can't wait for this.

[Dasquian Belargic]

:3 me too.

[Ilias Nytrau]

:eek I gots da gooooosebumps. This looks awesome.

[Mu Satach]

I am giddy! :crack
Oh so giddy! :crack
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