Well in case you didn’t think so already, this story does confirm Hollywood’s current mantra: “If at first you don’t succeed, reboot, and reboot again.”
Back in March I reported that Universal had plans to make a sequel to the disappointing 2010 Benicio del Toro movie The Wolfman despite the fact that it was another failure at its attempt to relaunch its legendary Universal Monsters brand (the first failed attempt was 2004’s equally disappointing Van Helsing). We haven’t heard anything about the sequel since my initial report, and with good reason: Movieholeis reporting that the sequel’s script is being rejiggered into an original film instead. The report suggests that it will go under a different title — Werewolf is the front-runner — and will have clear ties to the original 1941 Lon Chaney, Jr. classic. If nothing else that will help sell a few more DVDs of the classic monster films, right?
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.
I’d like to see Universal get it’s “Monster” brand back — those original 1930s and 1940s films are great, even if they got progressively worse — but I’m not sure if that’s do-able at this point where nearly every studio has some sort of vampire, werewolf, and/or Frankenstein film in the works. But what do you think? Let us know in the comments below!
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