What, you say rebooting a one-year old film is too soon? Whatever, you probably also think Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way” is a rip-off of Madonna’s “Express Yourself” and Stephenie Meyer isn’t the greatest author of the 21st Century. To you, I say, “Good day!”
Now, for those of you still with me… listen up… some major news was just revealed that will blow you away. Remember last year’s The Wolfman? You know, the Oscar-winning colossal disappointment that was first announced in 2006, signed Mark Romanek to direct in 2007, then Romanek dropped out just weeks before shooting, was replaced by Joe Johnston, the film then shuffled around the release schedule beginning with February 13, 2009, then April 3, then November 6 and finally February 12, 2010, which was when it began its run to $139 million worldwide… on a $150 million budget and last, but not least, Johnston trashed the production. What a whirlwind.
Okay, I think you remember the movie now. Well, guess what, a report out of Moviehole says Universal is now looking to re-write and rework Michael Tabb’s would-be sequel to that film and turn it into a whole new film, potentially called Werewolf. This film, Moviehole reports, will share a link to the original 1941 George Waggner film rather than Joe Johnston’s remake.
How far along is this idea? Moviehole says Universal is preparing for a fall shoot and will be talking to prospective directors over the next couple of weeks with casting to begin shortly thereafter.
I’m not sure why they would need to talk to directors or even look very far into casting, just hire Catherine Hardwicke (who remade her own Twilight movie with Red Riding Hood) and hire Taylor Lautner to star as the lead character, or maybe Joe Manganiello who plays Alcide in “True Blood”.
All snark aside, I still can’t get over how bad they screwed up The Wolfman, especially considering they had the perfect actor in Benicio del Toro to play the lead character. I can’t say I’m interested in seeing another film, and truth be told, I don’t think this film will ever see the light of day. The only way I see this happening is if they make it for essentially nothing, are able to get a hot name like Lautner in the lead role, use Gaga’s “Born this Way” as the thematic title track and churn out a PG-13 young adult feature like you’d see at Screen Gems rather than the hard R feature The Wolfman was. No thanks, there are enough werewolf options in the pop culture sphere to sate my needs thank you very much.
