Del Toro To Remake "Wolf Man"
Benicio Del Toro will star in and produce a remake of Lon Chaney Jr.'s 1941 horror classic, "The Wolf Man," Variety reports.
Del Toro, an avid Wolf Man fan and collector himself, will play the titular hairy hero after he wraps Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara biopic "Guerrilla" next year. As in the original, Del Toro will play a man bitten by a werewolf in Victorian England, although scripting by Andrew Kevin Walker ("Se7en") will update the story.
From Variety: "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."
"The expectation is that "The Wolf Man" will be a summer 2008 tentpole."
Del Toro, an avid Wolf Man fan and collector himself, will play the titular hairy hero after he wraps Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara biopic "Guerrilla" next year. As in the original, Del Toro will play a man bitten by a werewolf in Victorian England, although scripting by Andrew Kevin Walker ("Se7en") will update the story.
From Variety: "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."
"The expectation is that "The Wolf Man" will be a summer 2008 tentpole."
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 on Mar 15 2006 01:58 PM Del Toro will be a kick ass Wolf Man, hopefully they do this right. (Reply to this) |
 on Mar 15 2006 02:09 PM A worthy choice for a worthy remake and coming from someone who hates remakes almost as much as those damn TV movies, (Kotter, you got to be kiddng?) that's saying something :) (Reply to this) |
 on Mar 16 2006 07:56 AM With Walker on board, this could be a good project. Now, who's gonna direct? (Reply to this) |
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on Mar 16 2006 08:41 AM Keep Stephen Sommers far, far away... (Reply to this) |
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on Mar 16 2006 10:06 AM with walker writing the screenplay they should reunite him with fincher...i think he would do it justice... (Reply to this) |
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on Mar 17 2006 12:07 AM In reply to this comment (#832262) propsper Hahahaha (Reply to this) |
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on Mar 17 2006 02:06 PM Fincher to direct for sure. (Reply to this) |
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