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Post by Wild Rebel on Mar 17, 2006 16:24:59 GMT -5
Variety.com"Universal Pictures will scare up a new version of its horror classic "The Wolf Man," with Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro playing the title roletitle role. "Seven""Seven" scribe Andrew Kevin WalkerAndrew Kevin Walker has begun writing the script. Scott StuberScott Stuber, Rick YornRick Yorn, Mary ParentMary Parent and Del Toro will produce.
The studio owned the underlying rights to the character.
Like the 1941 original that starred Lon Chaney Jr., new pic 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.
Deal came out of a series of meetings with the producers, Walker and Del Toro, who collects Wolf Man memorabilia."Okay, he's a fan. But sometimes that the worse thing that could happen. I think I'm going to be ill. This is Lon Chaney, Jr's "Baby". It belongs to him, IMHO. Everyone is just going to compare it to An American Werewolf in London, anyway.
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Post by Chuck on Mar 17, 2006 16:54:38 GMT -5
The Wolfman was set in the year it was made.
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Post by Wild Rebel on Mar 17, 2006 16:58:16 GMT -5
The Wolfman was set in the year it was made. I didn't even notice that in the story.... Why am I thinking about that new, crappy version of The Time Machine?
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Post by Ratso on Mar 17, 2006 17:05:54 GMT -5
OH HOW ORIGINAL! THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT FILM!
Excuse me while I go vomit.
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Post by TV's Cowboy on Mar 17, 2006 18:54:31 GMT -5
Paul you's a wulf man. Oh wait wrong movie.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Mar 17, 2006 21:05:57 GMT -5
As much as I love Benicio del Toro, this is gonna be totally lame. It's gonna be all quick-edited with CGI crap flying around everywhere and it's gonna give me a headache -- or at least it would if I actually went to see it. Which I won't.
"Excuse me. I'm going to go throw up all over myself." -Tom Servo
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Mar 18, 2006 2:19:21 GMT -5
I'm going to reserve judgement.
I mean, yeah, odds are that it's going to be bad.
But of all the classic horror films, I think the Wolf Man would be the easiest one to do without messing up. Dracula has lots of potential for getting things wrong, as does Frankenstein, Creature From The Black Lagoon, all of them.
But the Wolf Man is one that I can actually imagine working somehow...I dunno, I'm probably just naive.
But hey, the original movie won't be destroyed at least.
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Post by Wild Rebel on Mar 21, 2006 8:13:11 GMT -5
Personally I think I'd most rather see a remake of Creature From The Black Lagoon, as there have been too many other variations of the wolfman, Frankenstein and Dracula. There was a Creature re-make being talked about as long ago as 1999....same as they've been threatening to remake Forbidden Planet forever. I think since King Kong didn't become the mega-blockbuster they'd hoped - not to mention Van Helsing and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - all of this might have stalled for good. Think of the money they will save by not having to use any monster makeup. He'll probably end up looking more like Henry Hull in Werewolf of London. Now THAT's a movie that might be worth a re-do....
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Mar 21, 2006 17:44:59 GMT -5
I wish they'd make another League Of Extraordinairy Gentlemen. I liked that movie.
Heck, I liked it better than the comic book.
Though I wish they'd make a sequel that tells roughly the same story as the comic sequel, where the League fights the War Of The Worlds aliens.
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Post by Ratso on Mar 21, 2006 21:09:55 GMT -5
Personally I think I'd most rather see a remake of Creature From The Black Lagoon, as there have been too many other variations of the wolfman, Frankenstein and Dracula. I don't think a film like that would work today, I mean they would make it where a bunch of rich kids take their parents yacht... they somehow end up in the Black Lagoon, start having sex everywhere, the creature has no idea what's going on so he starts to slowly (and brutally) kill them all until some other weird monster jumps out and starts to attack the creature and then there is explosions, shaky cameras, and Aston Kutcher. I already hate this movie.
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Post by Wild Rebel on Mar 23, 2006 13:36:09 GMT -5
Hey! I liked American Werewolf in London! Not the John Landis movie..... this one. It was made before the Chaney, Jr. one. Probably....but not as much as they'd hoped over all. I'm sure they were hoping for weeks at number one and more Oscar nominations....LOTR-type attention.
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Post by wells on Mar 25, 2006 21:15:16 GMT -5
This talk of Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon is starting to remined me and ache for the Monster Squad(1987), remember that film? The film was directed by Fred Dekker(Night of the Creeps) and it featured Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. I hope someone at Universal would get the idea to make a movie like this. *sigh* WHEN THE HELL WILL THIS EVER GET A DVD RELEASE!!!
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Post by Citizen Kane Hodder on Apr 30, 2006 0:05:44 GMT -5
It can't be any worse than Van Helsing but it will still probably be crap. If you want a good werewolf movie then check out Dog Soldiers.
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on May 1, 2006 14:17:22 GMT -5
If you want a good werewolf movie then check out Dog Soldiers. Do you mean "good" in the sense of actors or plot? 'Cause I don't think you can mean "good" in the sense of effects!
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Post by Citizen Kane Hodder on May 2, 2006 6:12:52 GMT -5
For me actors and plot >>>>>>>>>> some dork double clicking on his mouse to create a bunch of CGI horse crap.
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