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‘The Wolfman’ Extended Cut to Carry Addition 17 Minutes of Footage!
With the window for DVD/Blu-ray releases shrinking exponentially (it’s about to go into negative territory), talk of extra features comes up more and more often at junkets for big studio releases. Such the case with Universal Pictures’ The Wolfman. This weekend Bloody Disgusting’s Chris Eggertsen caught up with Director Joe Johnston who talked a bit about the “extended cut” – and not “director’s cut” – of the remake that arrives in theaters this Friday. Dig on it all below.
Chris asked Mr. Johnston, “As far as the additional footage that I’m assuming that you’ll be putting on the DVD, what can we expect? Are there any action sequences that would be added or is it all relationship/character-building stuff?”
“Well, there’s action sequences, but most of them are in the deleted scenes,” revealed Johnston in an exclusive one-on-one interview with Bloody Disgusting. “Most of the stuff that we put back in, I think it’s 17 minutes longer – a lot of it’s stuff up front, but there’s also, throughout the film, we basically let the scenes play a little bit longer. There’s a little bit of action stuff, but it’s mostly bits of scenes that worked, but we cut them out to shorten the film. You know, to get down to our 96 minutes. So it’s sort of a variety of stuff.” He continues explaining that it’s NOT a “director’s cut”, “But I won’t call it the “director’s cut”, it’s the “extended cut”. The release cut needs to be what you refer to as the “director’s cut”.”
“I think “director’s cut” has sort of a negative connotation in some ways,” Chris chimed in.
“It does for me. You know, the “director’s cut” should be what is released, I think.”
Watch for a full-length interview this week. The Wolfman arrives in theaters this Friday.
After scaring up a strong theatrical run, Oddity director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum heads home to Digital this week.
Settle in for a spooky supernatural chiller as Hokum arrives on all Digital platforms to rent or own beginning June 2, followed by a Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD release on August 11, 2026.
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) also star.
Get a peek at the upcoming physical media release below, including a few special features.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
What’s next from Damian McCarthy? He’s currently writing a haunted house movie, but recent comments suggest he may be moving into other genres beyond that upcoming project.
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