WOLF MAN is now available on digital from Blumhouse and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The film releases on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD beginning March 18.
Leigh Whannell directs a cast led by Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, and Sam Jaeger, for the Universal Pictures release!
If there’s one thing Leigh Whannell knows how to do, it’s tell an enriching and thrilling story. Just as he did with cyberpunk body horror actioner Upgrade and his scintillating reimagining of The Invisible Man, I’m all but interested in what he’s got for another Universal monster classic revisit, Wolf Man. What if someone you loved became something else? From Blumhouse and visionary writer-director Leigh Whannell, the creators of the chilling modern monster tale The Invisible Man, comes a terrifying new lupine nightmare: Wolf Man. Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night) stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Emmy winner Julia Garner; Ozark, Inventing Anna), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and […]
Ten years after Universal’s floundered effort to reboot the Monsterverse, the studio is back at it with director Leigh Whannell for Wolf Man. Blumhouse is also producing the pic alongside Motel Movies with Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner joining the cast based on Universal’s in-house 1941 monster classic. Plot details are unknown about the pic, but if you’re familiar with the lore than you already have an idea. Plus, you might have other ideas on how Whannell’s treatment will bode if you’ve seen his latest two, sci-fi actioner Upgrade and 2020’s Universal revamp of The Invisible Man to name a few. I’m a fan of both, and come October 25 later this year, I might be a fan of this one as well.
Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade is what happens when you mix together The Matrix, the Terminator series, pretty much any of sci-fi story involving AI, and a splash of Donna Haraway’s “The Cyborg Manifesto”. The film takes place at some point in the future, and focuses on Grey, who has become a paraplegic after a car accident and an attack. He is implanted with a chip that gives him the ability to use his limbs again. This is especially ironic given that Grey is someone who prizes the human effort put into manual labor. We know this because he was formerly a car mechanic who specialized in fixing old cars that, unlike most of the cars in this future world, still require a person to drive them. That Grey now requires the use of AI to even function as a fully-fledged human being is slightly tragic. The chip, known as STEM, is […]
It’s been about a year and a half since any talk arose over Upgrade director Leigh Whannell’s attachment to pen a reboot for Escape From New York. The famed sci-fi director favorite also just scored an opportunity with Blumhouse TV and UCP for the development of a sequel series based on the aforementioned Logan Marshall-Green starrer as of May. Time will tell what happens with either of these projects, as Whannell basks in the success of his recent sci-fi horror, The Invisible Man, from Universal Pictures. For now, the time going forward may also invite further progress on The Wolfman for the same studio. Mike Fleming Jr.’s exclusive report at Deadline notes Whannell, currently in talks to direct actor Ryan Gosling in the title role based on the classic movie monster franchise, will also pen the treatment with Blumhouse producing next to the actor. The original 1941 movie from George […]
Leigh Whannell’s 2018 Blumhouse-produced hit sci-fi action thriller, Upgrade, is officially headed for television. Whannell directed the SXSW Audience Award-winner, which centers on a tetraplegic imbued with STEM, an advanced A.I. tech that enables him to physically carry out his own campaign against the four supersoldiers that injured him and killed his wife, only to put him face to face with an even more nefarious conspirator. As Deadline‘s own Nellie Andreeva exclusively reports, Whannell, fresh off directing a reboot of The Invisible Man for Universal Pictures, is returning to direct the series, on which he will serve as co-creator and executive producer with Tim Walsh (Treadstone). Per the report, Upgrade, in its series form “picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host – imagining a world in which the government repurposes STEM to […]
Lead pic: Blumhouse
It’s been a few years since Robert Rodriguez was tapped to helm a remake of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York. That announcement followed news that broke in 2013 of its development at Fox and now, while still without a director, it hasn’t stopped the studio from bringing people aboard to help bring the new revisal to life. Enter Upgrade helmer Leigh Whannell whose work as a respective producer and director on select installments of the Insidious and Saw horror franchises have made a name for him in the last decade or so. Whannell is now next in line to pen the script after Neil Cross, a move in which he’s looking toward a fresher mix of both the original elements and new ideas instead of hampering it with the usual tropes that crippled the Robocop and Total Recall reboots. Starring Kurt Russell, the original 1981 cult classic set […]
The last five years have been something of a rollercoaster for Universal’s attempt at a Dark Universe. Gary Shore’s 2014 thriller, Dracula Untold, gave way for the studio to steer efforts toward reviving its long-celebrated line of monster movie properties – a move that didn’t bode too well for Alex Kurtzman’s critically panned take on The Mummy three years later. The film bombed and that pretty much left things near solidly uncertain for the Dark Universe as the studio had already lined its cast up, including Johnny Depp who was set to star as The Invisible Man, based on H.G. Wells’ 1897 novella. To make matters worse and despite the franchise’s maintenance, the state of the still-fledgeling shingle was also mired by the departure of that film’s writer, Ed Solomon, just last week, prior to Depp’s own switching of gears on Monday. For this, however, it does look like things […]
Like anyone who went to SXSW this year and was able to catch the hell out of Leigh Whannell’s sci-fi action thriller, Upgrade, I was an absolute mess. I was even more destroyed by how damn cool the very first red-band trailer looked a few months ago and I love how it’s catching on to other folks who are curious. The campaign continues until that badass looking film releases this Friday from BH Tilt to stir the final round of press. With this, they’ve released a new minute-long trailer filled with rhythmic buzz quotes from previous reviews, all tuned to the percussion of Logan Marshall-Green as a paralyzed technophobe adapting to his newfound abilities by way of an experimental chip that repairs his motorskills and gives him the ability to be the plainly-dressed cyber-powered avenger we didn’t know we needed! UPGRADE is a thrilling and hyper violent vision of the […]
More than two decades in with memorable film and acting credits in titles like The Matrix Reloaded and the Insidious franchise, it’s no secret that Leigh Whannell’s other pursuits in film have been behind the lens for sometime now. He also wrote the Insidious and Saw films as well as the Millott/Murnion horror romp, Cooties, which proved to be a rousing crowdpleaser several years ago. Whannell’s craft and ability to tap into audience made clear, his latest, Upgrade, continued making his case this year upon premiering at SXSW, with critics flooding the internet with praise, and others echoing their sentiments all over Twitter. The film is opening on June 1 and rest assured, it’s an omnious occasion for Blumhouse having earned itself quite the favor after hits such as Get Out and Happy Death Day. Whannell pens the script for Upgrade with a story set in an age when technology […]
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