The Wolfman next remake of the classic horror film of 1941 with the same name.

The new version is directed by Joe Johnston and stars Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and Geraldine Chaplin.

Although originally scheduled for release on 6 November 2009, has been postponed several times and is scheduled to be launched on 12 February 2010.

Premise
Set in the 1880s, the film keeps the plot of the original, with Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro) reunited with his loving father (Anthony Hopkins), following the disappearance of his brother.

Lawrence Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After leaving the Victorian village dream of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s girlfriend, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search.

He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and an inspector from Scotland Yard called suspicious Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate. At the bloody puzzle pieces, discovers an ancient curse that turns the distressing on werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if you have any chance of ending the slaughter and protecting the woman who has learned to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as the hunt for the beast of nightmare, a simple man with a tortured past will discover a key aspect to itself  he never imagined existed.

Directed by Joe Johnston

Produced by
Scott Stuber
Rick Yorn
Sean Daniel
Benicio del Toro

Written by
Andrew Kevin Walker
David Self
Curt Siodmak (Original screenplay)

Cast
* Benicio del Toro as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolfman
* Anthony Hopkins as Sir John Talbot, Lawrence’s father. Hopkins said the Universal Horror series “when played today come across as pretty corny, but they were entertaining.”
* Emily Blunt as Gwen Conliffe, with whom Talbot falls in love. Blunt liked the “mythological”, “gothic and majestic” story and signed on despite her fear of horror films. Blunt said Gwen was probably the first “innately good” character she ever played.
* Hugo Weaving as Francis Aberline, who investigates murders by the transformed Talbot. The name Francis Aberline is a play on Frederick Abberline, who was a real life Victorian inspector working on the Jack the Ripper case.

Other cast includes: Gene Simmons (voice of The Wolfman), Geraldine Chaplin (Maleva), Art Malik (Singh), Nicholas Day (Colonel Montford), Michael Cronin (Dr. Lloyd), Dianne Pilkington (Opera Singer), David Sterne (Kirk), Sam Hazeldine (Horatio), and Big Brother 8’s Emily Parr (Prostitute).

Music by Danny Elfman
Cinematography Shelly Johnson

Editing by
Dennis Virkler
Walter Murch
Mark Goldblatt (uncredited)

Studio Relativity Media
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) February 12, 2010
Running time 125 Minutes

Country
United States
United Kingdom

Language English

Official website: www.thewolfmanmovie.com

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