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Here’s a new featurette for The Wolfman

Liam — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:14 +0000

Universal has released a new featurette which gives us a better understanding of the story behind The Wolfman. It begins by showing clips of The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein and other classic monster movies from the black and white era, and then Benico del Toro talks us though the story for this modern take on the “iconic” Wolfman, which will introduce the beast to “a new generation”.

We also see Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt discussing the film, along with some new footage.

Here’s another trailer for The Wolfman

Liam — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:44:12 +0000

Today Apple debuted a new trailer for Universal’s remake of The Wolfman. This trailer is quite different to the first one we got as it’s just a montage of scenes, whereas the teaser was your typical trailer which set up the story and characters. As we are moving closer to it’s February release date the visuals are nearing completion and some scenes look bad ass. Watch below!

The Wolfman stars Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Hugo Weaving, and is directed by Jurassic Park 3 director Joe Johnston.

The Wolfman trailer!

Liam — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:43:56 +0000

Last month Universal decided to push The Wolfman back from November 6th 2009 to February 12th 2010, which annoyed a few people as it’s the second time the film had been pushed back. However, to easy the pain Universal promised that we would finally be getting a trailer, and that trailer is now online. Watch below!

I’m liking the look of the film. Dark and moody. The transformation scenes look quite cool too, and I’m glad they look nothing like what we saw in Van Helsing. Assuming they don’t push it back again, it looks like we will have a decent monster movie on our hands come February.

New images from The Wolfman

Liam — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:11:26 +0000

Bloody-Disgusting got their hands on 4 new images from The Wolfman. The one above shows Emily Blunt hiding behind a tree as a figure of the Wolfman himself lurks in the background. Click here to see the rest, including shots of Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.

We heard last week that we should be getting a trailer for The Wolfman on August 21st with Inglourious Basterds, so it will most likely appear online then too.

Universal talks The Wolfman delay. We will be getting a trailer soon!

Liam — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:37:57 +0000

Yesterday we heard that Universal had pushed The Wolfman’s release date back once again from November 6th 2009 to February 12th 2010, and there was talk that recent reshooting was to blame. However, Universal have now commented on why they decided to delay the hairy one, and revealed that we will be getting a trailer in a few weeks!

From ShockTillYouDrop:

I’ll start with the good stuff. You’re going to see a trailer sooner than later. Attached to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds on August 21st, in fact.
I’ve spoken to my reps at Universal and have been informed the release shift had much to do with box office potential.
In its November 6th slot, the Joe Johnston film would have been going up against Disney’s A Christmas Carol, whereas in February it faces little competition (although The Cabin in the Woods opens one week earlier). Futhermore, from a marketing standpoint, Universal wanted to ensure all of the FX were complete so they could use them in the ad campaign.

So not only will we get a trailer for The Wolfman, August 21st is also the day we will get a trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar!

If you can’t wait that long to see Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Hugo Weaving in action, click here to see some blurry footage that was presented at last years Comic Con.

The Wolfman pushed back…again

Liam — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:13:54 +0000

According to ShockTillYouDrop Universal have pushed The Wolfman’s release date back yet again, from November 6th 2009 to February 12th 2010. This is the second time they have pushed the film back, as it was originally set to be released in April. I thought that the November release date was perfect for the film, and it’s only competition was 2012 (and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, but that’s a different market). It’s new February release date means it will be going up against The Book of Eli, and Legion the following week.

The last we heard on The Wolfman was that they were re-shooting some scenes and adding more action, so that could be the reason for the delay. Hopefully these extra scenes will add to the film and it will be worth the wait, however there is something inside my brain thinking that it could be a case them overdoing it. The film got pushed back so they had time to add more, but they could have gone crazy with the CGI, resulting in the film needing to be pushed back again. I hope i’m wrong though.

Will The Wolfman be on all fours?

Liam — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:13:01 +0000

Last year Universal decided to push back The Wolfman from April to November and this gave director Joe Johnston additional time to shoot more scenes and iron out any problems. Back in May we heard that they were adding more action scenes which included “a fight scene between two werewolves involving a fair amount of CG with them going up the walls and other bits of business”. Now according to The Daily Mail stunt supervisor Vic Armstrong and the cast have spent six weeks shooting more scenes which “saw a tougher, fiercer creature bounding around – and ready to attack on all fours.”

The 30 million dollar question for The Wolf Man was whether it walks like a man on its hind legs or like a wolf on all four. Plus, the supposedly frightening creature looked too cuddly, which was no good for a gothic horror movie starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt. ‘The Wolf was on its heels and it looked daft,’ an actor involved in the movie told me.
Vic came up with a great confrontation between the Wolf Man and the Werewolf. They really go after each other and it’s dramatic and exciting, whereas the stuff they shot first time round was limp.
‘The two stunt guys inside the costumes were exhausted, as Vic just had them doing the scene again and again until he was happy’, one of the crew who worked on the film at Pinewood Studios told me.
Benicio Del Toro flew to the UK for the re-shoots, Emily Blunt was, by that time, working on Gulliver’s Travels so was only available for three or four weekends, and Anthony Hopkins couldn’t return to London so he did his additional filming in LA.
Last night Universal confirmed that additional sequences were shot. ‘The full articulation of the transformational lead character will be realised when the film is completed and we are excited to share his incredible look with the world in the upcoming trailer’.
Johnston has been back in LA for the past five weeks overseeing the special effects and computer-generated images for the Universal film.

I guess we can’t really say which looks better, 2 legs or 4, as we haven’t seen anything yet. There was the Comic Con trailer from last year, but apart from that Universal haven’t got round to marketing it. I hope we get the trailer sooner rather than later because i’m getting tired of watching the blurred cam quality Con trailer to fulfil my Wolfman craving!

The Wolfman adding more action. Werewolf fights!

Liam — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:36:27 +0000

Last year The Wolfman was pushed back from April to November, which was a good move and it proved that Universal had some confidence in it by giving it a better date. With the extra time it seems they have decided to go back and add more action to the film.

From Dark Horizons:

Vic Armstrong, the legendary stuntman, stunt coordinator and second unit director of everything from James Bond to Indiana Jones, appeared this past Saturday at the British Film Institute’s BFI Bond Weekender event celebrating the late 007 franchise producer Cubby Brocolli’s 100th birthday.
In attendance was ‘Glenn’ who got in touch and sent along this report of one little factoid that Armstrong let slip:
“He was mostly talking his work with the Bond franchise but he mentioned he’d just come from the set of ‘The Wolf Man’ at Pinewood Studios shooting some new action scene that was being added to the film.
He was very vague, he didn’t say what capacity (if any?) he was serving on the project but did say the crew were working six day weeks on this sequence.
He described the scene as a fight scene between two werewolves involving a fair amount of CG with them going up the walls and other bits of business, and that they had to marry it up to scenes shot earlier”

So far we haven’t had much from this, apart from a blurry trailer from Comic Con and a poster. Hopefully they will finish up these action scenes and present them to us in the form of a trailer. My only fear with The Wolfman is that they may go overboard with all of this CG. I’m sure most of us saw Van Helsing and if we get anything like that I will be disappointed.

The Wolfman and Nottingham release dates shuffled

Liam — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:43:51 +0000

Universal have given The Wolfman staring Benicio Del Toro and Ridley Scott’s Nottingham new release dates according to Variety. The Wolfman has been pushed back from April to November, which is probably a better release date considering how dark and gloomy it looks. Whereas Nottingham has been taken out of 2009 entirely and will be released sometime in 2010, with filming to begin in February next year.

The Wolfman Delayed?

Liam — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:50:59 +0000

According to Fango we could be seeing The Wolfman staring Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving a little later than expected.

Fango just heard through the grapevine that we may have to wait a little longer to see Benicio Del Toro get hairy. Word is that Universal is delaying THE WOLFMAN from its previously announced April 3 debut to sometime next fall.

If they are moving it back so that it is released closer to Halloween then that is a good move, even if it means we don’t get to see it when we hoped.