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'The Wolfman' Becomes a Franken-Movie?
Monday, November 23, 2009


By: MrDisgusting
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Is The Wolfman actually Frankenstein in disguise? Well, it's obviously not about a mad scientist's assembled monster - yet, if the movie is the creature and the studio is Dr. Frank, then you tell me what that equals? According to a new article over at Variety, Mirisch Agency has booked editors Mark Goldblatt and Walter Murch to recut Joe Johnston's The Wolfman reboot for Universal Pictures. For years now Bloody Disgusting has been hearing about the woes surrounding the hairy remake that is finally arriving in theaters February 12 (a Valentine's Day massacre anyone?). With the pic being re-edited just months before release, and news of recent reshoots and rescoring (Danny Elfman's score is to be replaced by composer Paul Halsinger's take), it's hard not to think we have a Franken-movie on our hands. Instead of moaning, he'll be howling in disappointment.



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chainsawboi25
1:05pm, November 23, 2009

I think this is gonna be really bad


Chococat
1:19pm, November 23, 2009

weird. The trailer looked SO good! I hope the final version is just as good.


CHAINSAW MANIAC81
1:32pm, November 23, 2009

Ya i agree with both comments, trailer looked really good but I'm afraid the film will be really long and boring and we will probably hardly see the wolfman as the wolfman, I will still see it on opening day since i am not going to judge a film before i see it, so i hope the wolfman proves me wrong & be a really good film reboot.


TwistedFate_L4
2:23pm, November 23, 2009

Why is it always the Werewolf movies that undergo all these crazy changes? I mean first it was CURSED, now this...


deLiriUM
2:24pm, November 23, 2009

theyre gonna change it so it wont be like the original 1941 wolfman starring lon chaney jr which took place in victorian england.


djblack1313
3:20pm, November 23, 2009

some parts of this looks AMAZING and some look like they came directly out of VAN HELSING (NOT a good thing). i have no expectations on this any more.


SpikeGhost
4:30pm, November 23, 2009

not as excited as i was... probably going to be bad.


Biohazard
4:56pm, November 23, 2009

Well, back in the days before the "Internet" (I hear millions of kids screaming in horror right now...)there wasn't really that much we knew about the production of a movie. Considering all the extra work they had to do on THE EXORCIST and how it went from a 4 million budget to 10 million, working and reworking you would think someone was going wrong with that...and there WERE rumors...and then we got the end result (well, it WAS excellent)anyone saying this is going to be bad because they're still working on it, need to put those negative thoughts away. Sounds like they're doing their best to make it as good as possible.


SK6000
5:17pm, November 23, 2009

i love reading all the comments by the idiots who think its gonna be bad and boring. true, it might actually be bad but maybe you should wait and see it instead of basing your assumptions off of a 3 minute trailer and some internet blogs...


bloodnguts313
6:04pm, November 23, 2009

who cares again!


The Dark One
6:28pm, November 23, 2009

I actually see this as a positive thing. If they've changed the score, are re-editing and doing reshoots then they've obviously realised the picture can be made better and this should have a positive effect on the final product. Since when has putting more effort and work into a film been a negative thing? Maybe just because it's a remake and a horror film?


jkrouskop
7:35pm, November 23, 2009

The vast majority of major studio films are edited and re-edited right up to the eleventh hour, but for some inexplicable reason, only high profile genre films get so much hand-wringing press coverage over it. I'm not arguing that this film will end up being a classic, but a large number of truly great films were tweaked, re-worked, and even fully overhauled in the weeks leading up to their releases in order to make them better. In this age of Director's Cuts and fanboy fury, we labor under the gross misconception that unless a movie perfectly conforms to the artist's vision on the first edit, it is either a watered down product of studio tampering or a misguided mess. The fact is that a movie is still a work in progress until the moment the first frame plays for a paying audience, and it is wholly unfair to the people working on it to assume that it will be a commercial or artistic failure simply because that work is still going on nearly three months (let me reiterate - MONTHS) before it's scheduled to hit theaters. With all due respect to our fearless editor and the rest of the staff, if you know anything about the filmmaking process, you know that "last minute" edits are hardly proof that a movie is in trouble.


brothergrimm
8:40pm, November 23, 2009

damn, this sucks, i sadly think this will end the same way the invasion remake did


tszilla
9:39pm, November 23, 2009

Oh crap.


STRIK9
9:42pm, November 23, 2009

The trailer looked great.Hopefully,the final movie is just as good.Maybe they gotta gloss it up for the teenage twilight crowd.


jkrouskop
10:17pm, November 23, 2009

And I reiterate (briefly, for those who never read) - it's still three months until the movie comes out. Re-edits three months before release are THE NORM in Hollywood, NOT a sign of trouble.


deadfactory
10:47pm, November 23, 2009

Maybe they should have hired a GOOD director, not Johnston.


Krug09
11:41pm, November 23, 2009

Sounds like a case of "fixing it until its broken" This is either going to be a neatly made movie or a total mess!


KISSman
11:57pm, November 23, 2009

How in God's name did they screw this up?? They had some really good parts in place too and now it sounds like a mess. I don't think I've ever heard of a movie in this much shambles that was then saved by 11th hour touch-ups. I was looking very forward to this one and now I'm expecting a big, hairy disappointment.


ABleedingCorpse
12:14am, November 24, 2009

I was excited and looking forward to this movie...but now, after all the news lately..I'm really worried this won't be as good as it was/could have been. But I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know what it looks like. Good be good, bad or very very ugly.


jkrouskop
1:45am, November 24, 2009

It's like talking to a brick wall. Go ahead and panic, sheep.


jkrouskop
1:45am, November 24, 2009

It's like talking to a brick wall. Go ahead and panic, sheep.


Captain Trips
2:15am, November 24, 2009

Still shouldn't have been made.


TwistedFate_L4
2:17am, November 24, 2009

Don't worry, I read what you said and agree, jkrouskop.


lucie with a gun
7:20am, November 24, 2009

wolfman! wanna.see. these are some great editors so im not worried. the trailers look great. hopkins is gonna rock this. and its the wolfman!


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