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Elrond to detect if THE WOLFMAN has nards!
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...
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...does have nards by the way.
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Scary wolfman.
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Awesome actor who should look pretty scary dugg out as a werewolf. really looking forward to him as Che though, can you imagine ANYBODY else for that role?
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Lots of interesting ideas, for the time, including the first werewolf vs. werewolf sceen.
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and told him that he fracking rocks!!!
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The first movies I ever saw were condensed 8mm versions of Walt Disney's Robin Hood, The Three Caballeros, Now You See Him Now You Don't and One Million Years B.C. The dinosaurs in One Million Years B.C. scared the crap out of me.
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With Joe Johnston that ain't gonna happen.
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Agreed.
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Please stop castrating my favorite movies.
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The Howling..best looking werewolves EVER...love those wolves..big ears and everything...that movie literally changed my life and when I made my own werewolf movie (Cold Blooded...look it up) that's the look I went for. But An American WereWolf In London is the better movie, bar none. Best transformation EVER...but it barely beats The Howling.
I can count all the truly great werewolf movies on two hands, it's truly a wasted genre. It'll be great to finally get another one. -
I was always disappointed that Neil Jordan's film wasn't about a more mature young woman who fucks a man who is also a Werewolf. Instead it's a weird coming of age movie... I think I'd write a Werewolf movie about a 19 year old Puritan girl who falls for a man who happens to be a werewolf and in the end she gives birth a half-wolf baby!!! Man, I'm bored.
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Feb 22, 2008 6:25:45 AM CST
OTHER FILMS WE'D LIKE TO SEE DOWN TO 8 MINS OR LESS...
by greigy just wanted to say
Titanic (actually fuck that destroy the negative, just think how many great Cameron films we could have had in the last 10 years if it wasn't for that appalling syrup fest) Forrest Gump (see Titanic), the Coda to Lord of the Rings (for God's sake the monster's dead... roll the credits).... and so on..
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Romanek leaves: Strike one! Andrew Kevin Walker's scipt get's rewritten: Strike two, three, four, and five. This movie is officially off of my radar. Who wants to take bets that Benicio Del Toro bails?
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i got my first camera, a Bell&Howell, from Sears when i was 12 - cartridge loader, no sound - i made some very bad backyard movies - but what i really liked was filming stuff off tv - id set up the tripod so the camera would frame the tv screen perfectly - i filmed a lot of "the incredible hulk" and "battlestar galactica" and asy Harryhausen stuff that would come on - when Siskel & Ebert reviewed "empire strikes back" i filmed the scenes they aired - i was a sad little zit covered nerd, but that camera was very cool - the projector i got with it was a cheap piece of shit though - ruined a lot of my reels - by the time we got a vcr, about 1984, my camera was collecting dust in a closet - i shoulda held onto it - oh, and, "the wolfman" is going to be great - keeps sounding better and better
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...his presence in a film hasn't inplied greatness for quite some time. When he's good, he's incredible, but when he's bad, he's REALLY bad. His Van Helsing is almost as bad as Roxburgh's Dracula in that other movie.
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Christ...
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I know actual people that look and even howl like that werewolf...especially after a few
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Look at the way Harry and his friends are hyping yet ANOTHER remake. Its almost like they're all tired of movies and just want to watch the same shit over and over again. This HAS to stop.
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Apparently they're passing around the wacky-weed...Werewolf in London remains the yardstick by which ALL other werewolf movies are compared. It was gory, sexy. sleazy, funny and scary all at one. That takes TALENT. The transformation scene was worth the price of admission alone. The repeat nightmare sequence still gives me chills. Great friggin' movie.
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He's still the best screenwriter in the biz.
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Feb 22, 2008 8:27:01 AM CST
Rewrite? If they're "softening" the script I'll be furious!
by brokentusk
Maybe the re-write has nothing to do with softening the material and removing a lot of the violence, but I have a feeling that's exactly what is going to happen. I can't see Joe Johnston, the director of JUMANJI, HIDALGO and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG making an R-rated WOLFMAN film. When Romanek was on board, this was one of my most anticpated releases. Now? Now the whole project just breaks my heart.
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Curse of the Werewolf had one of the most tragic and beautiful werewolves to cross the silver screen. I loved it. The make up was great and the acting was too. Reed rocked it. That's what I was hoping this would be more like.
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Joe Johnston didn't direct "Mighty Joe Young". Ron "City Slickers" Underwood did.
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They couldn't wait around for Romanek because the writer's strike had a week left, and he wanted to rewrite. So they hired a mediocre director to take over, and then waited around for him to have it rewritten. I bet you anything they end up spending more money on the movie, delaying it longer and making a movie that's not very good. A brilliant strategy.
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Totally forgot about that movie till now. Must find it on DVD.
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i have lost all interest in this movie. despite how awesome deltoro is...
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all yer bitchin' and moanin' is bringin' us a wafer thin mint...
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I was really curious what the fuck it meant, and had to click.
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You're right, my mistake. My point still stands though.
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I'd give my left nut to see it on the big screen!!!
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Interesting... as long as he isn't an opium-addicted psychic, we should be cool.
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it will open at #5 or below. No one gives a shit. They are really going to have to Wow us, with or without this cast, and it is a good cast.
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Really hope they use the look that The Howling used for werewolfs, Still think that has the best look for them.
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The fleeting stop motion werewolves in the moonlight at the end of The Howling.
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Is an awesome werewolf movie..with the best looking wolves...it really kind of brought the thing into a whole new era, but AWIL has it beat, it's more of a true werewolf movie...and that transformation scene...forget about it...amazing.
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So we're doing Jack The Ripper was a werewolf? Abberline was the London copper originally in charge of the Ripper investigations. And he was nothing like Johnny Depp in FROM HELL (much more like the Robbie Coltrane character in that movie, or incidentally, more like how Alan Moore wrote him in the first place)...
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Rick Baker helped Rob Bottin with that, using some of the methods he was supposed to keep under wraps for AMERICAN WEREWOLF. When John Landis saw the footage, he was incensed, and made Baker do the full body transformation in natural light in WEREWOLF to up the stakes...
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a werewolf is a man who turns completely into a wolf. many cultures have comperable myths. this is even reflected in the original lcjr flick when bela lugosi, no less, in wolfen form, bits lon chaney jr. he transforms into a transitional figure, hence, wolf-man. thank you and good night.
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