Universal Reviving The Wolf Man In 2018

You didn’t need to be a fortune teller to see that this was on the cards. As Universal work towards relaunching their classic monster movie properties in a new cinematic universe, a new take on ‘The Wolf Man’ appears to be confirmed.

Word first broke in Variety that screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski (writer of ‘Prisoners,’ also set to pen the latest draft of the next ‘Friday the 13th’ movie) has been hired by Universal to script this latest take on the classic werewolf tale.

While Universal themselves do not appear to have made any official announcement yet, the usually reliable Box Office Mojo have ‘The Wolf Man’ listed as set to hit US screens on 30 March 2018.

It has been known for some time that Universal had an unspecified monster movie scheduled to land in March 2018, roughly a year after their reboot of ‘The Mummy’ which is intended to properly kick off the new monster movie universe (and may star Tom Cruise).

Other Universal monster reboots we’ve heard rumblings about include ‘Van Helsing;’ ‘The Creature from the Black Lagoon,’ for which the studio are believed to be courting Scarlett Johnasson; and ‘The Bride of Frankenstein,’ which may give the title role to Angelina Jolie Pitt.

Universal - or more specifically, screenwriter Curt Siodmak - pretty much invented modern werewolf lore with their 1941 horror ‘The Wolf Man,’ which cast Lon Chaney Jr as the cursed Lawrence Talbot.

Chaney would reprise the role in all of Universal’s original crossover movies of the 1940s: ‘Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,’ ‘House of Frankenstein,’ ‘House of Dracula’ and ‘Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.’

2010 saw Benico del Toro take on the role of Lawrence Talbot alongside Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt in a considerably gorier remake of ‘The Wolf Man,’ which had originally been hoped to kickstart a Universal monsters revival. However, the production was notoriously troubled, and the film wound up a critical and commercial disappointment.

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