Mar 16 2006Benicio Del Toro to Play Wolf Man
To further the continuing chain of unnecessary Hollywood remakes, Universal has decided to update the Lon Chaney horror classic The Wolf Man, with Benicio Del Toro playing the title role.
Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker has begun writing the script. Scott Stuber, Rick Yorn, Mary Parent and Del Toro will produce. Like the 1941 original that starred Lon Chaney Jr., new pic will be set in Victorian England. Del Toro will play a man who returns from America to his ancestral homeland, gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy moonlight existence.
To prepare himself for the role, Del Toro will continue looking like a creepy wolf man.
Reader Comments
1. TheBishop - March 16, 2006 5:14 PM
What's next, Anna Nicole Smith as The Creature from The Black Lagoon?
You know it's a sad day in Hollywood, when the smartest casting done lately is Kelsey Grammer as "Beast" in the new X-Men movie.
2. Zapp Brannigan - March 16, 2006 7:06 PM
Del Toro as a wolf man, and Ricci as a pig chick. Are we seeing the beginnings of a new casting trend?
3. turdhead - March 17, 2006 12:39 PM
He's come full circle from playing Duke the Dog-Faced Boy in Big Top Peewee. I still can't believe oscar snubbed him for that one.