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Hope Wolfman and Dracula look better and less cheesy.


With those, I'm hoping for less CGI, and more of an authentic creepy factor, more old school and less Mission Impossible style action.

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I have a theory about the Wolfman actually. You may not like it if it turns out I'm right, though.

So, JUST before announcing this big shared universe project between Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan, there was another smaller announcement: Universal, and Chris Morgan, bought the film rights to The Wolf's Hour, a novel by Robert McCammon. This novel is largely considered one of the best werewolf novels out there. In it, a werewolf spy is dropped into Nazi-occupied France and proceeds to go Nazi hunting.

Why would Universal, and Chris Morgan, buy the rights to a 40s-set werewolf novel right around the corner from doing a shared universe project including a reboot of a 40s werewolf film?

I suspect that they're going to use that novel as a loose basis for their Wolfman reboot.

Initially I thought they'd do something more direct, with the Wolfman actually fighting Nazis circa WW2, but now I'm not so sure. What I'm thinking will happen is, the Wolfman is a field agent for Prodigium, the organization that Dr. Jekyll is a major part of as we see in this film. He gets dropped into a war zone. Why? Probably another monster on the loose. That's what Prodigium is all about.

But that war zone may not necessarily be WW2. For all we know the Wolfman will be tearing it up through the Middle East or somewhere near Southeast Asia, fighting terrorists.

Keep in mind, this is ALL just speculation. For all we know, the Wolfman film has nothing to do with the Robert McCammon novel and that's an entirely unrelated adaptation. Why Universal would want to make a werewolf film that isn't connected to their Monster Universe, I don't know, but it's possible.





Warning! The Monster is loose!

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Always looking for werewolf material, thanks

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"The Wolf's Hour, a novel by Robert McCammon. This novel is largely considered one of the best werewolf novels out there. In it, a werewolf spy is dropped into Nazi-occupied France and proceeds to go Nazi hunting."

The premise sounds interesting. I hope the actual story itself is good.

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They wont.


Lose the Game!!!!!!!

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