If you’ve ever wished a film about werewolves that additionally comes with some social commentary wrapped inside, your wants might presumably be sated in the close to future with an upcoming film.
Per Deadline, filmmaker Jonahtan Libeseman—finest recognized for Battle: LA and the 2014 live-action Ninja Turtles movie—is drawing consideration together with his subsequent challenge, Wolf Night. According to the outlet, the screenplay from April Maguire and Will Honley is being explicitly billed as “District 9 by way of The Purge—but with werewolves.” Does that imply it’ll be a discovered footage film set in a metropolis populated by lycans? Will werewolves have free reign of a metropolis throughout a full moon, at which level anyone who isn’t one is totally screwed? Not a clue in the slightest, nevertheless it sounds fascinating and probably cool as hell.
Wolf Night is being headed up by manufacturing firm Platinum Dunes, whose horror resume contains the precise Purge franchise, reboots of basic horror flicks like Friday the thirteenth and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Paramount’s A Quiet Place sequence. Deadline says “multiple studios” have an interest in this movie, although no specific one was recognized as a probable frontrunner. With a premise like that, it might simply wind up at any studio, from Universal to Paramount and even Warner Bros. (Hopefully not that final one.)
Either approach, right here’s hoping it will get snatched up—past its cool elevator pitch, it’d be good to have some extra mainstream werewolf films alongside all of the demons and vampires we get at a dependable clip. Other than Universal’s reboot of The Wolf Man, there’s presupposed to be Larry Fessenden’s Blackout, each of that are anticipated to launch later this 12 months.
[via Fangoria]
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