A teaser for “Wolf Man” has been released.
Directed by Leigh Whannell, “Wolf Man” stars Julia Garner, Christopher Abbott, Sam Jaeger and Matilda Firth, although it does sound like a two-hander between Abbott and Garner. Here’s the official synopsis;
Wolf Man is the blood-chilling reimagining of the classic monster pic that will leave you on the edge of your seat as you witness a man and his family being stalked and terrorized by a lethal predator.
If you remember, last year, Ryan Gosling had dropped out and been replaced by Abbott on the creature feature. As you can read from the short synopsis above, plot details are still being kept in the dark, but the mysterious story is said to be focused on a man whose family is being terrorized by the titular predator.
In early 2020, Whannell was announced as the director of “Wolf Man,” but he was soon replaced by director Derek Cianfrance. Well, he’s officially back. Abbott was actually supposed to star in Ari Aster’s “Eddington,” also currently filming, but ended up choosing “Wolfman” instead.
In 2020, Whannell‘s “The Invisible Man” introduced a possible winning formula for the rest of Universal’s “Monsterverse.” I really enjoyed what Whannell did with the source material, he turned the story into a Cronenberg-ian nightmare. Whannell’s other credits include the ultra-underrated low-budget sci-fi “Upgrade.
Back in March, Universal announced that “Wolf Man” would delay its original 2024 release by three months and would now open wide on January 17, 2025.