Looks like it's now 100% official. Fantastic news! I can't wait to see what Guillermo Del Toro does with The Hobbit....
It's the perfect counterbalance to circling rumours that Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour 3...) is being considered by Universal to takeover The Wolf Man. Director Mark Romanek walked out on the project a few days ago, over issues with the budget, and the studio want someone to come in and basically knock out the film using Romaneck's storyboards.
Ratner performed a similar task when Matthew Vaughan left X-Men III, so Universal have probably turned to him because of his experience as a last-minute fixer. The Wolf Man was already on horror fans' radar; having secured Benicio Del Toro as the eponymous lycanthrope, working from a script by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en), securing support from Anthony Hopkins (as Del Toro's father), with the likelihood of Emily Blunt as Del Toro's love-interest, and American Werewolf In London monster-maker Rick Baker returning to the werewolf genre. Exciting, no?
So it's a shame Romanek (One Hour Photo) has bailed... but I pray a director with a similar set of skills steps in to save the day, and we're saved from a knee-jerk fixer/hack like Ratner.
It's the perfect counterbalance to circling rumours that Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour 3...) is being considered by Universal to takeover The Wolf Man. Director Mark Romanek walked out on the project a few days ago, over issues with the budget, and the studio want someone to come in and basically knock out the film using Romaneck's storyboards.
Ratner performed a similar task when Matthew Vaughan left X-Men III, so Universal have probably turned to him because of his experience as a last-minute fixer. The Wolf Man was already on horror fans' radar; having secured Benicio Del Toro as the eponymous lycanthrope, working from a script by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en), securing support from Anthony Hopkins (as Del Toro's father), with the likelihood of Emily Blunt as Del Toro's love-interest, and American Werewolf In London monster-maker Rick Baker returning to the werewolf genre. Exciting, no?
So it's a shame Romanek (One Hour Photo) has bailed... but I pray a director with a similar set of skills steps in to save the day, and we're saved from a knee-jerk fixer/hack like Ratner.
