From Darkhorizons, "Universal Pictures is planning a new version of its horror classic "The Wolf Man," with Benicio Del Toro playing the title role reports Variety.
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.
"Seven" scribe Andrew Kevin Walker has begun writing the script and 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.
Its expected the studio will shoot "The Wolf Man" in early 2007 after Del Toro completes Che Guevara biopic "Guerrilla", and be a Summer 2008 tentpole for the studio."
5 comments:
This casting makes perfect sense to me. I've always thought Benicio was one ugly MF - somewhere between human and, well wolf.
I know a number of women who find him attractive, but I'm with you. He's also a great actor -- I bet he'll do great as the whiniest movie monster ever.
I think he's great when he's not in whacko mode. Of course that really just means "I think he's great in Traffic."
He was great in one of the best movies of the last ten years, Sean Penn's undervalued masterpiece "The Pledge."
They sure do photograph him carefully to hide the DeForest Kelley-sized bags under his eyes.
"the DeForest Kelley-sized bags under his eyes." The funniest comment I've heard all day.
You understand that I mean, "The bags under Benicio Del Toro's eyes are the size of the bags under DeForest Kelley's eyes," not "The bags under Benicio Del Toro's eyes are the size of DeForest Kelley."
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