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Universal Bringing ‘The Wolfman’ Back to Life With Ryan Gosling Attached to Star
Universal is prepping a new take on another classic monster, Variety reports tonight, with Ryan Gosling attached to star in Wolfman, with the hunt for a director currently underway.
The title character had most recently been brought back to the screen in 2010’s The Wolfman, with Benicio Del Toro in the role. That movie was just one of several attempts Universal has made in recent years to reboot their movie monsters for modern audiences, with Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man this year beginning a new vision for the classic characters. Rather than making any further attempts to create an interconnected series of monster movies united under a “shared universe” umbrella, Universal is focusing on creator-driven standalone films.
Variety notes that Cory Finley (“Bad Education”) is one of the directors being considered for this particular project, but that no decisions have been made on that front just yet.
The film is based on a pitch from Gosling himself, who at one point was going to direct. Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo (“Orange is the New Black”) wrote the script.
Other monster movies in the works from Universal include Paul Feig’s Dark Army, Dexter Fletcher’s Renfield, Matt Stawski’s Monster Mash, and Elizabeth Banks’s The Invisible Woman.
And James Wan is reportedly producing a new take on Frankenstein.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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