The Wolfman (No, not the original). - General

[img]http://www.filmedge.net/Wolfman/downloads/wolfmanposter2.jpg[/img] Coming out :siren: [b] This Friday, February 12th[/b] :siren: Cast: Benicio del Toro (Wolfman/ Lawrence Talbot) Anthony Hopkins (Sir John Talbot, Lawrence's father) Hugo Weaving (Agent Smi-, I mean, Francis Aberdine the detective) Copy pasta from Wikipedia [quote] In March 2006, Universal Pictures announced the remake of The Wolf Man with actor Benicio del Toro (a fan of the original film and collector of Wolf Man memorabilia) in the lead role.[4][5] Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker was attached to the screenplay, developing the original film's story to include additional characters as well as plot points that would take advantage of modern visual effects.[6] Del Toro also looked towards Werewolf of London and The Curse of the Werewolf for inspiration.[7] In February 2007, director Mark Romanek was attached to helm The Wolfman.[6] In January 2008, Romanek left the project because of "creative differences".[8] Brett Ratner emerged as a frontrunner to replace Romanek, but the studio also met with Frank Darabont, James Mangold and Joe Johnston. They were also interested in Bill Condon, and Martin Campbell was interested.[9] Johnston was hired to direct on February 3, 2008, and the film's shooting schedule and budget remained as intended.[10] Johnston hired David Self to rewrite the script.[11] Shooting took place from March 3 to June 23, 2008, in the United Kingdom.[12] The film was budgeted at US$85 million.[8] They shot at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, and Castle Combe in Wiltshire.[13] They transformed Chatsworth House by adding weeds, dead grass and ivy.[14] They also shot in Lacock in Wiltshire, a village conserved by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, for a day. Universal donated £5000 to the village, in return for filming in the tithe barn for a scene involving frozen corpses.[15] A funeral scene was also shot beside the Temple of Ancient Virtue at Stowe House, with the temple coated in false ivy and copious amounts of smoke/mist floating over the setting. Pick-ups at Pinewood were conducted in May 2009.[16]. Rick Baker created the make-up for The Wolfman. When he heard Universal was remaking the film, he eagerly pursued it, as both The Wolf Man and Frankenstein inspired him to become a make-up artist as a child. He acknowledged transforming del Toro was difficult because he is a hairy man: "Going from Benicio to Benicio as the Wolf Man isn't a really extreme difference. Like when I did An American Werewolf in London, we went from this naked man to a four-legged hound from hell, and we had a lot of room to go from the transformation and do a lot of really extreme things. Here we have Benicio del Toro, who's practically the Wolf Man already, to Benicio del Toro with more hair and bigger teeth."[17] Rick Baker, Emily Blunt, and Benicio del Toro at the 2008 Comic-Con convention promoting the film Baker and del Toro were adamant about the design resembling the make-up created by Jack Pierce, but Romanek went through thousands of concept art. When Johnston signed on, Baker returned to his second design, which is the finished result.[18] The make-up took three hours to apply, and one hour to remove. New pieces of latex prosthetic makeup and loose hair was applied to del Toro's face each day, while several dentures and wigs were created in case some were damaged.[17] Baker said the transformation will likely be computer-generated, which disappoints him as he is not being involved and therefore feels it will look unrealistic (as the animators do not have his knowledge of the design).[19] In February 2009, ZBrush art of the transformation by Baker leaked online.[20] In addition to the film, at the 2009 Halloween Horror Nights, Universal Studios Florida added The Wolfman to the event. [/quote] Opinion: Personally I think it will be ok, mediocre at worst. But I've been wrong before. Media: [img]http://blog.onlinemoviesunlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/the-wolfman-movie.jpg[/img] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/Wolfman-final-small.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/wolfmancasting.jpg[/img] Trailers! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKyeMQcUNY[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS02xaTIdRI[/media]

haha this will turn out well

This actually looks pretty cool. Has a setting like Sherlock Holmes, time period, location, and so on. I'll be headin to the theater to watch this one :v:

i think it looks pretty good but the title i dont like so much but thats just me.

Just saw it, was actually pretty good. Smeagle freaked me out a bit. (You'll get it when you watch the movie) Anyway, [sp] I wish they didn't kill off the Sikh guy, he was pretty cool[/sp]

Every single person I've talked to said it was absolutely terrible. The casting was bad, the acting was bad, the story was horrendous, etc. Haven't heard one good thing.

I bet everybody you talked to were people who liked transformers.

It was pretty horrible - but I kind of liked it anyway. I didn't think it took itself too seriously. Riddled with clichéd dialogue, stupid over-the-top violence, I thought it was rather enjoyable for a pretty bad movie. [editline]03:43PM[/editline] And of course Hugo Weaving and Anthony Hopkins were great in it.

The moral of the story is to not take movies too seriously. [editline]08:58AM[/editline] But the original wolfman was really shit, even back then, so you could say it stayed true to the original.

I just got back from empire to see it. and... it KICKED ASS! seriously worth the wait (kind of)!