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Nightwing84 wrote: I would love for this movie to be a huge success and maybe open the door for more. I mean, what if this could be the start of a continuing story like in the good old days ? Maybe a sequel could be a new version of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ? I know I'm dreaming but still. I have never understood why these great properties have been lying so dormant for so many years. I hope this new Wolf Man is a sign of that dormancy ending.
I feel the same as you about this - but, I've been hesitant to verbalize it. - GJS
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Mar 29 08 11:40 AM
Beware308 wrote: But this film has so much going for it right now, and what changed my mind about this film was that draft of the script. Let's hope they don't change it too much to be a re-hash of the original.
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bromstaker wrote: Whenever I hear a film remake described as a 're-imagining' I get an apprehensive feeling. That's how Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake was described, and that film amounted to little more than a pumped-up version of the tv show. Rick Baker's work was about the only redeeming feature. As for The Wolfman, I'm not expecting perfect fidelity to the original, I just hope they don't completely mangle the original story.
Point taken. I should have expanded on that, or not even used the word. Basically, from the script i read, it was a whole new story. It was more of a "Hey, let's get our monsters out there by making new movies about them, rather than rehashing the originals". So really, as i said, they take the characters we know, take that same basic plot point from the original, and throw it into a new story.
I hate remakes, because, as you said, they mangle the original story. But this script...it's not mangling the original story because, well, it's already an original story.
Mar 29 08 6:54 PM
Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote: Beware308 wrote: But this film has so much going for it right now, and what changed my mind about this film was that draft of the script. Let's hope they don't change it too much to be a re-hash of the original. I believe the most recent passes were by David Self. Original director Mark Romanek left very shortly before production was fully underway, his leaving variously attributed to budget issues, scheduling issues in light of the then-current writer's strike, and good old 'creative differences'. Taken all together, it does sorta seem like something changed script-wise that was a major stickiing-point for Romanek, but who knows*? *I mean, 'who knows' that both posts here and isn't directly involved in the production, leaving him, one assumes, in a bit of a difficult position (even legally) regarding any on-record confirmations/dismissals of the above.
well, somethings HAVE changed script-wise as far as i can tell, and that's always a given. What i read was the first draft(or atleast thats what i was told it was). But really, i can confirm, from reading this script and based on the report that Hugo Weaving was cast as a Scotland Yard detective(who wasn't in the draft i read, but a character this one is probably expanded upon is in the draft and isn't really important...at all.) that something has been changed around a bit. What it is exactly and how it will play off is yet to be seen.
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