Joe Johnston directs a Wolf Man remake, the classic 1941 horror film directed by George Waggner. In this version, starring Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and Art Malik is told the story of a noble tormented Lawrence Talbot who is motivated to return to the family home when her brother disappears. Met with a foreign father, Talbot started looking for the brother … and finds itself a terrifying fate.
Talbot's childhood ended the death where the mother died. After leaving the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's girlfriend, Gwen Conliffe, tracked him down to ask for help to find his lost love, Talbotitorna home and joins the search. Find that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberlin came to investigate.
The film was announced in March 2006 had a very difficult pregnancy, was initially chosen as the film director Mark Romanek leaving in January 2008 the project to creative differences. Subsequently been made the names of Brett Ratner, Frank Darabont, James Mangold, Joe Jonston, Bill Condon and Martin Campbell, but in the end a month later was chosen Jonston. The screenplay was originally conceived by Andrew Kevin Walker but was later rewritten by David Self.
Special effects c 'to indicate the presence of Rick Baker famous for having cured the trick in the cult film An American Werewolf in London.