A look at Benicio Del Toro displaying Wolfish characteristics, PRE-Rick Baker effects, on the set of THE WOLFMAN(2009).
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Anthony Hopkins Plays 'Dad' to the WOLFMAN
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Friday, October 19, 2007
Source: MTV
Sir Anthony Hopkins starred as Van Helsing in the update of Bram Stoker's DRACULA. According to MTV, he's now crossing into the update of another historic genre film, the upcoming remake of THE WOLFMAN. While doing some press for his upcoming Slipstream, the actor confirmed that he's set to star opposite Benicio Del Toro in the update of the 1941 classic. This time, however, he won't be hunting the beast as he did in the update of the famed bloodsucker. No, MTV is reporting that Hopkins will be playing Sir John Talbot, the father Lawrence Talbot(Benicio). Andrew Kevin Walker wrote the screenplay for this remake and Mark Romanek is directing. Rick Baker is handling the make-up effects.
Plot Concept: Like the 1941 original that starred Lon Chaney Jr., the new film 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.
THE WOLFMAN hits theaters Feb.13, 2009.
