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Back in 1941, director George Waggner and screenwriter Curt Siodmak teamed with Universal movie stars Lon Chaney Jr. and Claude Rains to bring to the silver screen the scary movie The Wolf Man, a story about a man who returns to his ancestral stomping grounds and is repaid for these efforts by being bitten by a werewolf and thus inheriting the curse himself. Life can be kind of brutal like that, you know?
The Wolf Man was a stone cold smash hit at the box-office and before long horror movie fans were lining up to see other offerings from Chaney and Co. featuring the new lycanthropic sensation: Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein all continued the story of the continuing quest of Lawrence “Larry” Talbot to end the curse of the werewolf once and for all. That last 1948 outing for The Wolf Man marked the end of that storyline perhaps, but ultimately it did nothing to quell Universal’s own quest to bring the character(s) from their original ‘41 masterpiece back to life in various and sundry iterations over the ensuing 80+ years. Their last real serious attempt was 2010’s bellyflop The Wolfman which was helmed by Joe Johnston. Neglected by all but the hardcore genre aficionados, the disappointing box-office was seemingly deadlier than a silver bullet, sending the Universal Higher Ups back to the proverbial drawing board in order to figure out how to successfully revive their flailing furry friend.
The newest take on The Wolf Man has been greenlit by Universal and is being directed by Leigh Whannell and will feature actors Christopher Abbott (harmonies with 1948, anyone?) and ingenue Julia Garner who previously worked with Abbott in a feature film back in 2011.
From our McDougal’s House of Horrors fanatics over at Variety comes the news today that Universal and Blumhouse has decided to push back its originally announced release date for their remake of The Wolf Man from October 23, 2024 into the next year on January 17, 2025.
No precise word on why the pushback in release date, but another Universal/Blumhouse collab entitled The Woman in the Yard is receiving similar treatment, so apparently it’s nothing too personal.
Regardless of the ultimate release date, here’s hoping that the new version of the classic 1941 film The Wolf Man hits its mark this time at bat!
