Post by masterofallgoons on Dec 17, 2023 1:56:36 GMT
The Hollywood Reporter: Christopher Abbott Replacing Ryan Gosling to Star in ‘Wolf Man’ for Blumhouse, Universal
The Wolfman gets a new director and star team after Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling exit. They've been attached for quite a while, but no details have been shared as to why they're no longer involved. Gosling will receive executive producer credit.
Now Leigh Whanell will co-write (with like 3 other writers including Jason Blum's wife) and direct Christopher Abbott in the leading role.
Obviously Whanell had a hit with the Universal monster property in The Invisible Man, but Abbott is a pretty huge step down in star power. Most viewers first saw him in Girls, while horror fans may know him from It Comes at Night and Possessor.
Apparently Whanell had been attached to The Wolfman after the success of The Invisible Man, but I feel like I'd heard about the Cianfrance/Gosling project for years. They'd been developing this for a long time, but now that the project has new names attached it's been fast tracked. It's now expected to come out in the fall.
I've liked Whanell's post Wan-iverse movies, but I was kind of looking forward to what Cianfrance would do. His small scale, independent minded approach applied to this type of movie was an exciting prospect. Oh well.
The Wolfman gets a new director and star team after Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling exit. They've been attached for quite a while, but no details have been shared as to why they're no longer involved. Gosling will receive executive producer credit.
Now Leigh Whanell will co-write (with like 3 other writers including Jason Blum's wife) and direct Christopher Abbott in the leading role.
Obviously Whanell had a hit with the Universal monster property in The Invisible Man, but Abbott is a pretty huge step down in star power. Most viewers first saw him in Girls, while horror fans may know him from It Comes at Night and Possessor.
Apparently Whanell had been attached to The Wolfman after the success of The Invisible Man, but I feel like I'd heard about the Cianfrance/Gosling project for years. They'd been developing this for a long time, but now that the project has new names attached it's been fast tracked. It's now expected to come out in the fall.
I've liked Whanell's post Wan-iverse movies, but I was kind of looking forward to what Cianfrance would do. His small scale, independent minded approach applied to this type of movie was an exciting prospect. Oh well.
