Hey folks, Harry here... After a director shake-up on THE WOLFMAN - it seems the project has taken it's first real post-Romanek step towards further production with the addition of Hugo Weaving to the already awesome cast of Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and the oh so lovely Emily Blunt.

Our dear V will be playing Detective Aberline - a character that was not in the original classic Lon Chaney Jr rendition. Also - Variety mentions that David Self has done a rewrite of the Andrew Kevin Walker script. David did excellent work on Jan De Bont's remake of THE HAUNTING - which was later butchered by some executive meddling - as well as fantastic scripts for THIRTEEN DAYS and ROAD TO PERDITION. That said - I really loved Walker's original draft - we'll keep our eyes out for a script to see how much has changed or if it has been toned down. That said - David is an excellent writer. Or at least has been in the past.

If you've never seen the original - and you're curious at a peek at it... back in the pre-video days of 16mm and Super 8mm films - in the back of old Famous Monsters of Filmland magazines - you could purchase "Condensed" versions of all the classic Universal Monster films... For the longest time - I thought ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN was just under 8 minutes long as my family had the Castle Films version... edited down to its bare essentials as a story. Here's the Castle Films version of... THE WOLF MAN...