Original Director Reveals Why He Quit THE WOLFMAN Remake
If you didn’t know One Hour Photo director Mark Romanek was set to helm Universal’s big-budget R-rated The Wolfman reboot with Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, and Emily Blunt before being replaced by Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Jurassic Park III director Joe Johnston.
Why did Romanek leave the project? Well today we found out.
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Romanek tells Collider: “It was a perfect storm of potential, and with a perfect storm of kind of shit. It was Benicio Del Toro and I collaborating on a vision of the kind of film we wanted to make, and then we got Anthony Hopkins, and we got Emily Blunt, and then we got [production designer] Rich Heinrichs, and I got Milena Canonero to do the costumes and we were really in the process of making this more daring, darker, more mysterious horror film.”
“And it was during the writer’s strike and there were changes of leadership at the studio, and they didn’t seem to really trust what we were doing. And it was costly, the film, and everything started pulling apart rather than coalescing. Everybody started going in opposite directions until it was clear that if they wanted to make their idea of the film, meaning the studio’s idea of the film, my hands were kind of tied because there was a writer’s strike, so we couldn’t really change the script. So I didn’t see a way to give them what they wanted and the only option really was to step away and say, “Do it how you want,” which was very disappointing and that’s the way it went.”
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The film film ended up centering on aristocrat Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) who returns to his ancestral home of Blackmoor after many years to find his missing brother at the request of the latter’s fiancee, Gwen (Emily Blunt). He learns that a creature has links to an ancient curse turning people into werewolves when the moon is full. To save the village and protect Gwen, he must slay the bloodthirsty beast, but he contends with a horrifying family legacy.
Rated R for bloody horror violence and gore, the film sports a 34% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: Suitably grand and special effects-laden, The Wolfman suffers from a suspense-deficient script and a surprising lack of genuine chills.
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