Ryan Gosling to Star in Wolf Man Remake

Well, if he's involved I hope that means the script is good or the director has a cool vision.

Shape of Water sorta did The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Del Toro originally conceived of it as that.

I'm still interested in finding more details as to what Clive Barker and George Romero were going to do with The Mummy back in the 90s. Some of it sounded wild.

The Invisible Man was just an excuse to show Elisabeth Moss being tortured and tormented both physically and mentally for the vast majority of the movie.  If you liked that sadistic nonsense then why won't you at least wait until you know the plot of the Wolf Man movie before you shit on it?

I'm a HUGE Universal Monsters fan and Ryan Gosling is always good so I for one am very intrigued. 

I heard an interview with Del Toro recently where he said he had pitched a remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon to Universal years prior that was essentially the story of The Shape of Water. He realized that Universal wasn't gonna do it so he changed some things up and made a more original take on the same plot. But his idea was that he would remake it as a love story with the Gill Man being a romantic lead of sorts in a Beauty and the Beast kinda way.

There are some details out there about the Romero and Barker versions of The Mummy. Both would have been interesting, but the Barker stuff sounds so perverse and weird. I don't know how close they got to pre production, but they definitely had outlines and I think early drafts of scripts.

I'm sure this still happens, but it seemes rampant at the time that studios would hire these filmmakers known for their crazy stuff and then be shocked when they'd come up with a crazy idea when they were hired to do that in the first place.

I like the remake with Brendan Fraser, or at least I did when it came out (the sequels were horrible). I haven't seen it in a while, but the sorta Indiana Jones-ish approach makes sense and they got to make a family friendly monster movie.

But the way to find a unique spin on this was to let someone like Clive Barker bring his weird and perverse thematic fucked-up-itude to it.

They're on a better path now, it seems, where they're starting by hiring good filmmakers and it seems that they're letting them do what they want instead of saddling them with the issues that come with making a movie for a 'shared universe.' Leigh Whanell did a good job with a new, and sort of unrelated version of The Invisible Man, and I'm not sure what approach she is taking, but I'm curious about the Karyn Kusama Dracula. I loved The Invitation, so she's cool in my book. No announcement yet on who would be directing this remake of The Wolf Man, but I would think that with Ryan Gosling already on board they'll certainly have interest from name directors.

The John Carpenter version of the Creature of the Black Lagoon was going to be about a ship of Creationists (led by John Agar) going down the Amazon to disprove evolution by not finding the missing link gill-man--but when they do, they decide to kill him.
At the end it is discovered there's a cave containing millions of gill-man skeletons.
The script was by Nigel Kneale (it sounds similar to his Abominable Snowman).

The 2010 Wolfman was better than expected but Lon Chaney casts a big shadow.
They need to find someone who can have the haunted look quality that he had.
Benicio Del Toro resembles Chaney somewhat but didnt convey the haunted tortured quality (I hated the "he's an actor" back story).

In the 1990s. Rick Baker was going to do the fx.

Apparently it was Gosling who approached the producers because he is a fan of the character and really wanted to be in a new Wolfman movie which means he's going to take this seriously.