Poor Wolfman. Universal really, really believes in you — so much that it’s giving you another chance after your 2010 attempt at a reboot with Benicio del Toro underperformed. But what chance does the Wolfman reboot — now titled Werewolf — have when, according to Moviehole, Universal has hired director Louis Morneau?
Who? That was my initial reaction, too. Thankfully Moviehole provided some of his directing credits: the direct-to-video Joy Ride 2 : Dead Ahead, The Hitcher II : I’ve Been Waiting, and Quake, Bats with Lou Diamond Phillips, Made Men and Retroactive with Jim Belushi, and Carnosaur 2 (tagline: Back for Another Bite!). Can’t say I’ve ever seen (or wanted to see) any of those flicks.
Okay… now Morneau could possibly be a talented director (though his IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes ratings say otherwise…), but his hiring suggests that Universal has no plans to actually spend much money on the film. I get that Universal wouldn’t want to — after all, The Wolfman wasn’t the financial success Universal expected it to be — but why bother rebooting what would certainly have to be a film with a big effects budget with little-to-no money in the budget?
The film, with the reworked script that was originally written by Michael Tabb (whose only writing credit that IMDB lists is a 2006 direct-t0-DVD Tom Sizemore movie titled Ring Around the Rosie), is set to start filming in the fall in whatever form it ends up in.
Lon Chaney, Jr. could probably start a spinning class in his grave now… what do you think?
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