The Wolfman (2010) may not have launched the film franchise that Universal Pictures originally hoped, but it shall live again in the light of a televised full moon.
It has been learned that Daniel Knauf, the executive producer and head writer of NBC’s Dracula will be spearheading the attempt to transform the story of a man who is pure and says his prayers by night into a serialized horror drama.
This would place The Wolfmanas part of NBC’s Friday night supernatural power block. The network’s Friday is still built around the hit gothic procedural Grimm, but this would also appear to give a vote of confidence to its newest companion piece, Dracula starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the titular role.
It is reported that the series is based on the 2010 film produced by Scott Stuber, who is also serving as producer on the series. The story will pick up on the harrowing journey of Lawrence Talbot, an American in London (or at least Victorian England) who has been cursed with the mark of the werewolf when he returned home following his brother’s untimely death. The previous film starred Benicio Del Toro as the titular lycanthrope and Anthony Hopkins as his father. The film itself is a remake of the 1941 horror classic The Wolf Man, which starred Lon Chaney Jr. and Claude Raines in the same roles. It is unclear how the plot will exactly connect to those incarnations.
SOURCE: Deadline
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