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The Wolfman

Database entry for The Wolfman

By Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor January 09, 2008

A look at Benicio Del Toro displaying Wolfish characteristics, PRE-Rick Baker effects, on the set of THE WOLFMAN(2009).
© Universal Pictures

Release Date: February 13, 2009
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Joe Johnston
Screenwriter: Andrew Kevin Walker
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving
Genre: Horror

Plot Summary: Based on 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. FX maestro Rick Baker is on lycanthrope duties bringing "The Wolfman" to life.

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Johnzilla 6/19/2008 9:54:19 AM

I am a fan of classic Horror films - Frankenstein(Karloff), Dracula(Lugosi), Chaney Jr.(The Wolf Man) etc. If I were making this new version, I would go the "stylistic" approach. Black & White or something in the ball park of 300.