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Benicio Del Toro Talks ‘Wolfman’ Inspirations
With Universal Pictures’ The Wolfman on its way to theaters next year (now in November, yikes!), one question that we’ve all been debating is whether or not other monsters would cameo in the Joe Johnston directed remake. In a new interview with star Benicio Del Toro, all is cleared up, while he also speaks a bit about his inspirations for the film, which is set in Victorian England where 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.
MTV caught up with Benicio Del Toro, who chatted about his research for Universal’s remake of THE WOLFMAN.
“[When I did my research], I definitely looked at what Lon Chaney Jr. did in the original `Wolf Man’ and the movie,” Del Toro told MTV News. “I also looked at the `Werewolf of London,’ the Henry Hull movie, which was made maybe 6 years before in 1935, and looked `Curse of the Werewolf’ with Oliver Reed.”
Del Toro reveals that while he looked to the past for inspiration, there are still some subtle changes.
“Anthony Hopkins’ role was [originally] played by Claude Rains and the relationship between Rains and Lon Chaney Jr was a good father and son [relationship]. In [our version], its definitely fractured, I’m like the prodigal son, I’ve been gone, he sent me away when I was a child and I haven’t seen him in twenty six years and I can home again to visit my brother who’s missing, but I [also play an] actor too which is also different.”
Don’t expect other monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein or the Mummy to walk into the frame either — but could that happen in a sequel?
“You mean, the guy named Dracula waiting in the taxi outside?,” Del Toro cracked? “No, there’s no other monsters coming into play, that’s maybe down the line.“
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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