Whats happening with Benicio Del Toros Wolf Man?
The release of Universal Pictures’ long-gestating remake of the 1941 horror classic ‘The Wolf Man’ has been delayed yet again. The film, which stars Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, was originally due to come out in spring of this year, but was then pushed back to November. Now we’ve learned that the film won’t actually reach our screens until February 2010. None of which means the film is necessarily going to be bad. The first trailer – which screened as part of a Comic-Con panel in 2008 and was subsequently bootlegged online – looks pretty gripping, with Del Toro, Hopkins and Emily Blunt in full Victorian garb, lots of eerie, mist-shrouded wolf attacks and outrageous bloodshed. Both the star and director Joe Johnston (‘Jurassic Park 3’, ‘Jumanji’) have talked extensively and convincingly about their vision for the film, pitching it as old-school Universal horror thrills coupled with dark-edged modern psychodrama. But the film seems to have had its share of hitches. Original dire
