Universal Pictures has tapped Benicio Del Toro to headline its remake of the horror classic, THE WOLF MAN, reports VARIETY. SEVEN writer Andrew Kevin Walker will pen script from which Scott Stuber, Rick Yorn, Mary Parent and Del Toro will produce.
Like the original 1941 Lon Chaney Jr. film, the redo will be set in Victorian England where a man who returns from America to his ancestral homeland and is transformed into werewolf after being bitten.
The project developed over several meeting between the producers, writer and star, who is a big fan of the character. The script plans to add new twists and plot points to take advantage of new visual effects technology.
The studio hopes to start shooting early in 2007, after Del Toro completes Steven Soderberghs Che Guevara bio-pic, GUERRILLA. Universal is gearing up the picture for a summer 2008 tentpole release.
Production president Donna Langley and evp Peter Cramer will oversees the project.
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