Rumors are swirling about that Universal is seriously interested in getting Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to have a starring role in their revival of The Wolfman, according to Deadline. The site hints that they want him to appear as the hairy beast himself but nothing is even remotely close to confirmed, so this should all be taken simply as industry chatter.
Universal has already announced that they are bringing the The Mummy, which stars Tom Cruise, to us in June of 2017 and The Invisible Man, which stars Johnny Depp, in April 2018. There’s another monster movie coming February 15th, 2019, although it’s undetermined which creature we’ll be seeing hitting the silver screen on that date. It could be the Wolfman but there’s also the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, and Dracula to choose from.
Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan are overseeing this new universe, which will see each of the movies having some sort of interaction with the others, kinda like how the MCU films all play into each other. The pair spoke about their vision in an interview last year.