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Universal Pictures showed its first full trailer of the Wolf Man trailer at the New York Comic-Con on Friday, following a teaser last month.
Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night), who has been nominated for a Golden Globe, plays Blake, a San Francisco husband and father who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father disappears and is presumed dead. Blake persuades his wife Charlotte, played by Julie Garner (Ozark, Inventing Anna) to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger played by Matlida Firth (Hullraisers, Coma), when they are being stalked, terrorized, and haunted by a deadly werewolf. The film directed by Aussie filmmaker Leigh Whannel.
This will be Whannell’s fourth effort as a director, after Insidious: Chapter 3, Upgrade, and The Invisible Man. This is another remake of the classic Universal monster franchise, just like the previous one.
Whannell had his own idea of werewolf that he shared with Discussing Film, “In modernizing the werewolf, I didn’t want to make it about a curse or anything mystical. In our post-pandemic world, the proximity to people in our own homes who can be ill with a dangerous sickness is what was most interesting to me. You can take all these classic monsters and wrap them around different concepts to modernize them. In this way, Wolf Man has much more of an infection angle.”
The film co-stars Sam Jaeger (The Handmaid’s Tale), Ben Prendergast (The Sojourn Audio Drama) and Benedict Hardie (The Invisible Man), with newcomer Zac Chandler, Beatriz Romilly (Shortland Street) and Milo Cawthorne (Shortland Street).
Wolf Man is directed by Whannell and written by Whannell & Corbett Tuck. The film is produced by Blumhouse founder and CEO Jason Blum p.g.a., and Ryan Gosling (The Fall Guy, Lost River) and is executive produced by Leigh Whannell, Beatriz Sequeira, Mel Turner and Ken Kao. Universal Pictures and Blumhouse present a Gosling/Waypoint Entertainment production, in association with Cloak & Co: Wolf Man.
Universal and Blumhouse will release the film, Wolfman at theaters on January 17th.