Ryan Gosling May Be The Next ‘Wolfman’

May 29, 2020

Written by Kelli Marchman McNeely

Kelli Marchman McNeely is the owner of HorrorFuel.com. She is an Executive Producer of "13 Slays Till Christmas" which is out on Digital and DVD and now streaming on Tubi. She has several other films in the works. Kelli is an animal lover and a true horror addict since the age of 9 when she saw Friday the 13th. Email: horrorfuelinfo@gmail.com

Months following Univeral’s success with The Invisible Man, the studio is moving forward with Wolfman as the next movie in their monster universe. The werewolf film will star Ryan Gosling (Blade Runner 2049), but there is no concrete word if he will play the titular role.

According to Variety, Universal has been meeting with several potential directors including Cory Finley (Bad Education).

Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo (“Orange Is the New Black”) wrote the script based on the pitch by Gosling.

The original Wolfman was released back in 1941 and starred Claude Rains and Lon Chaney Jr. It follows a man as he returns to his homeland and is attacked by a creature of folklore and infected with a horrific disease that transforms him into a wolfman.

Universal’s original vision for the monster universe would have included a shared universe filled with the studio’s original monsters that included the Invisible Man, Wolfman, Dracula, along with others.  Labeled “The Dark Universe”, the plan was scrapped after  The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise, crashed like a car going downhill with no brakes in winter. The new plan is to make a series of filmmaker-driven monster movies that pay homage to the classics, like with The Invisible Man (review) which was a major win for the studio.

 

Share This Article

You May Also Like…